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sidewinder · 05-28-2002, 08:47 AM

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Originally posted by MrDarwin:
So the consensus seems to be that if God (or one of his/her/its prophets) appeared on earth as a person in modern times, Christians would reject him (or her), much as the Jews rejected Jesus 2,000 years ago, if this person did not meet their expectations or preconceived notions.

Interesting, and it certainly raises the question why Jews (or anybody else for that matter) should have accepted Jesus in the first place.

Most Jews living at the time of Jesus of Nazareth rejected him because he didn't fill the messianic expectations of the Jews. The Messiah is expected to bring peace to the Earth forever and turn all people to the worship of Yahweh. Obviously, this didn't happen with Jesus, or any of the other self proclaimed Messiahs who came after him. Christians claim that Jesus is going to reappear at some point and bring peace to the Earth and turn all people to the worship of Yahweh. However, Jews reject this because a second coming of their Messiah was never part of the messianic expectations. Come to think of it...neither was a virgin born Messiah, a resurrected Messiah, a miracle working Messiah.

MrDarwin · 05-28-2002, 10:15 AM

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Originally posted by sidewinder:
However, Jews reject this because a second coming of their Messiah was never part of the messianic expectations. Come to think of it...neither was a virgin born Messiah, a resurrected Messiah, a miracle working Messiah.

Also, I don't believe the Jews expected the messiah to be God himself?

sidewinder · 05-28-2002, 10:59 AM

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Also, I don't believe the Jews expected the messiah to be God himself?

Ah, correct. The Jews expected the Messiah to be fully human.

B. H. Manners · 05-28-2002, 11:17 AM

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Originally posted by Jesus Christ:
So, in other words, what the Anti-Christ should do is be a nice, kind "Love ye one another" guy. Then the real Messiah shows up and gets stoned. That's how I'd do it if I were the devil.

If the devil had any intelligence that is what he would do.

Ron Singh · 05-28-2002, 02:01 PM

Still, NO. The false messiah can be discovered by the mark of the beast. I'm not Christian.

~Your friendly neighborhood 15yr old Sikh.

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Ron Singh Regular Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Fremont, CA Posts: 163	Still, NO. The false messiah can be discovered by the mark of the beast. I'm not Christian. ~Your friendly neighborhood 15yr old Sikh.

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