Many theologians believe that Jesus was a Gnostic Jew. Accordiong to the gnostic gospels, Jesus taught about enlightenment, NOT salvation.
Enlightenment and Unitarian go hand in hand it seems to me. While Christianity is definitely NOT about knowledge or thinking is it?
2007-02-21 13:30:23 · 9 answers · asked by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As Jesus was a Jew, he was indeed a unitarian. However, this is not in the current usage in the United States. Unitarian Universalist have evolved far beyond their Judeo-Christian heritage.
Jesus, would have been considered a religious liberal in his day. He railed against the established hierarchy and reached out to those ignored by society. I think Jesus would find himself very much at home in a Unitarian Universalist congregation.
2007-02-23 22:55:58 · answer #1 · answered by Magic One 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A unitarian? The same Jesus that in the book of Matthew tells us that straight is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it? I hardly think so.
2007-02-21 14:14:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was a Jew, and Jewish faith implies belief in the particular salvation story outlined in the Hebrew Canon (Old Testament). Christian gnosticism, right from its early roots, based itself in premises completely foreign to the Jewish mindset(s) that Jesus himself was imbedded in. Jesus did challenge many of the prevailing notions of proper Judaic faith, yet his renewal of the Abrahamic faith was a move towards fuller embodiment (the Incarnation) rather than one of disembodied gnosis.
2007-02-21 13:37:18 · answer #3 · answered by christian_mennonite_pacifist 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Many theologians believe that Jesus was the Son of God also and teach the same. Jesus did teach salvation, he said that noone can come to the Father (God) except through him.
Cheers!
2007-02-21 13:35:29 · answer #4 · answered by iamwhoiam 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I suspect jesus would have run a thousand miles from any organized religion, even unitarianism
2007-02-21 13:33:29 · answer #5 · answered by barry 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would make me far more likely to listen to what he had to say. I still wouldn't convert.....but I'd listen.
The good religions don't grow because they don't proselytize, but part of being good is not prostletyzing.
Viscious circle, yes?
2007-02-21 13:36:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's a good question and I think he might have been.Too bad he wasn't around 2000 or so years later.
2007-02-21 13:34:23 · answer #7 · answered by Stormilutionist Chasealogist 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-02-21 13:34:34 · answer #8 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no...
2007-02-21 13:33:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋