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Old 12-02-2012, 03:35 PM   #1
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Default What is the origin of the majesty of an historical Jesus?

Majesty: Originally, during the Roman republic, the word maiestas was the legal term for the supreme status and dignity of the state, to be respected above everything else. This was crucially defined by the existence of a specific crime, called laesa maiestas, literally "Violated Majesty" (in English law Lese majesty, via the French Lèse-majesté), consisting of the violation of this supreme status.

Various acts such as celebrating a party on a day of public mourning, contempt of the various rites of the state and disloyalty in word or act were punished as crimes against the majesty of the republic. However, later, under the Empire, it came to mean an offence against the dignity of the Emperor
The above is from WIKI on Majesty.


Is the origin of the majesty of an historical jesus derived from a Roman Emperor?


Or is it derived from the geostationary God above the cloud banks of Jerusalem?

Is it derived from the First Apostolic Bonehead Church?

Is it derived from the Pope or Arch-Bishop?

Is it real? What's it made of?

Did he get it from the New Testament?

Did he get it from the LXX?



Where did the (or an) historical Jesus get his majesty from?

And if Jesus was not historical, how did he acquire such majesty?
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What is the purpose of this thread? Do you not understand how a mere idea with no corporeal substance can be powerful?



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It's been nicknamed "Scary Jesus." It's a colossal mosaic, 3,600 square feet, titled "Christ in Majesty" that dominates the space above the altar of the great upper church at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. The Jesus in the National Shrine mosaic is a huge enthroned figure with muscular bare arms and fierce, frightening blue eyes. It's the Last Judgment, the "Day of Wrath," in mosaic form.

Scary Jesus certainly seems to violate the canons of the Christian greeting-card industry. ...
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Scary Jesus certainly seems to violate the canons of the Christian greeting-card industry. ...
He doesn't look scary enough for the Christian book industry though.

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"Jesus merely raised one hand a few inches and a yawning chasm opened in the earth, stretching far and wide enough to swallow all of them. They tumbled in, howling and screeching, but their wailing was soon quashed and all was silent when the earth closed itself again."
Awful vision of a bloodthirsty Jesus
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....Where did the (or an) historical Jesus get his majesty from?

And if Jesus was not historical, how did he acquire such majesty?
This like asking how was the Lochness monster described if it was not historical??

Why would people say that there was a Monster in Lochness if there was none??

The answer is rather simply.

People INVENTED their own Lochness monster and Majestic Jesus.

Why was Jesus Fathered by a Ghost of God in the NT and it was published "all over "the Roman Empire and accepted as true??

In the NT, Jesus had a name above every name in heaven, earth and under the earth.

Jesus was Lord.

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9Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name 10That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow , of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;11And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
The Pauline writer invented his own Majestic Jesus from "Revelation" after Consulting entities WITHOUT Flesh and blood.

What are entities WITHOUT Flesh and blood??

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15But when it pleased God........ To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood..
The Pauline writer INVENTED his Majestic Jesus.
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Scary Jesus certainly seems to violate the canons of the Christian greeting-card industry. ...
He doesn't look scary enough for the Christian book industry though.

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"Jesus merely raised one hand a few inches and a yawning chasm opened in the earth, stretching far and wide enough to swallow all of them. They tumbled in, howling and screeching, but their wailing was soon quashed and all was silent when the earth closed itself again."
Awful vision of a bloodthirsty Jesus
The Fundy-fruit devotes of gawd'awful awful Jebus Krispy gawd gotta have them an awful Jebus-gawd dat make 'ol Kali ma look like a gentle pussy.
No tiny hole in 'de floor fer der awful Jebus-gawd, no sireee! De whole damn earth gonna split from end to end and swallow up billions of nonbelievers at a crack.
More guts, more gore, more pleasure in mass massacre, more of everything ......more insane.
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Jews never would think Jesus is majestic. They still have not forgiven him for healing the blind on the Sabbath.
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When Jeebus-gawd come back, he not gonna heal no blind, he done gonna burn de eyeballs raight otta yer head.
He done be one pizzed off dude 'cause ya ain't been a'kissin his holey arse everyday like he done commanded.
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My goodness. Where oh where might the church have gotten the idea to take their crucified godboy and make him a "king?"


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The Pauline writer INVENTED his Majestic Jesus.
Just backwards. Catholics are not Jesus worshipers and never were.

Catholics are not Christians, and never were (ask your Baptists friends).

In Catholicism Mary is co-redeemer and Jesus only for 'the Jesuit.'

No Jesus prayers in Catholicism . . . but we do hail Mary's by the decade in a series of Litanies but no Litany on Jesus.

In fact, in the end Jesus if left behind like a dirty rag.
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Scary Jesus certainly seems to violate the canons of the Christian greeting-card industry. ...
He doesn't look scary enough for the Christian book industry though.

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"Jesus merely raised one hand a few inches and a yawning chasm opened in the earth, stretching far and wide enough to swallow all of them. They tumbled in, howling and screeching, but their wailing was soon quashed and all was silent when the earth closed itself again."
Awful vision of a bloodthirsty Jesus
Fundamentalist Christianity at its best.
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