why do people still think he's the messiah?
2007-04-23 07:51:17 · 17 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Brainwashed.
2007-04-23 07:53:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
The authors of the NT went back through their copies of the OT & wove their narrative around "Jesus the Christ" fulfilling all of the alleged prophecies that would occur through the Jewish Messiah. So it was easy to tailor their story to appeal to the Jewish community that this Jesus fellow had actually met all of the criteria to be the Messiah mentioned in the OT. One of the major problems was Jesus didn't fulfill the really big prediction that he (The Messiah) would inaugurate God's Kingdom on Earth with his power being centered in Jerusalem & all of humankind would follow Jewish law.
The Jews were awaiting a political Messiah who would deliver them from the oppressive rule of the Romans. So can you blame the Jews for thinking that this Jesus fellow was yet another false Messiah, like all of the other men who proclaimed to be The Messiah around the time of Jesus.
When the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70 CE, it also took down the Jewish faith and handicapped it for quite a long time. Christians were a cult at that time and they really didn't blossom until Emperor Constantine made Christianity the state religion in 313 CE. Then the fun really started with the Arian Controversy where there was a knock-down all out battle over the definition of Christ. See the website for a detailed explanation.
So the church was able to define Christ and that view has dominated Christianity ever since & it is the dogma that has been taught to each generation since the Council of Nicea. So people still believe the definition of Christ being the Messiah as established at the historical gathering. Separated by time and culture, a vast majority of those who claim to be Christian never had the opportunity to explore the man Jesus of Nazareth in his Jewish context. Most followers accept what the church has taught them as faith triumphs doubts. So despite being 2000 years late for his return, people still find a way to believe that Christ is the Messiah by viewing his story through the lens of faith rather than critical thinking. As long as faith dominates, there still will be those who accept the story crafted at the Council of Nicea.
2007-04-23 15:23:38 · answer #2 · answered by nolarobert 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He did fulfill sooo many & will fulfill sooo many.
Yeshua Messiah Is YHVH. Read Isaiah 53. This was written long before it came to pass. Just one Messianic Prophecy fulfilled. Genesis 3:15. Jesus is the Seed of the Woman.
Do a yahoo search of Messianic Prophecies fulfilled on Yahoo A & ?s. Some have listed web sites that list hundreds of fulfilled Messianic Prophecies.
2007-04-23 15:00:42 · answer #3 · answered by LottaLou 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are prophecies of things that are still to come regarding the Messiah. He will fulfill every prophecy. He has fulfilled most. But it will be done in God's time not in ours.
2007-04-23 14:55:55 · answer #4 · answered by linnea13 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He did. That is why He IS.
http://www.schneblin.com/studies/pdfs/in_the_volume_of_the_book.pdf
In the prophetic types of Moses and Joseph, both had two comings. The first time they are seen, they are rejected by their own brethren. The second time, they are recognized and are saved. This was the point of Stephen's rebuke of the Sanhedrin in Acts 7.
Like the prophetic model of Moses and Joseph (as well as the Feasts of Israel) there are two comings. Once where Messiah is rejected by Israel, the second when Messiah is received.
2007-04-23 14:55:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Paul and used car salesman have a lot in common. They accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. By the time it was noticed there were too many leaders making a good living off the flocks who believed, had faith, but never bothered to verify the claims of such as Paul.
Have you ever looked into the rationalizations used to eliminate the negative of Jesus not being of the line of David?
2007-04-23 14:58:59 · answer #6 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's true that he did not fulfil the prophecy of bringing Peace to the world. He DID lay down a great roadmap for it, though.
2007-04-23 14:55:27 · answer #7 · answered by laurel g 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He did fulfill prophecy. However, as it says in Deut. 29, Israel was not given sound ability to interpret even their own scriptures. God said that he had yet to give Israel eyes to see and ears to hear, even to this day. This is what is spoken about in Ezekiel, in the valley of the bones. God is saying that he will resurrect Israel, spiritually, and that they will be alive truly for the first time in their history. He says tha the will remove their heart of stone, and finally they will be able to see Jesus for who he is.
2007-04-23 14:56:49 · answer #8 · answered by A. Cari 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He is still fulfilling prophecy. Perhaps you should try studying harder in your attempts to disprove Christianity. You seem to post everything you can against it.
You remind me of Voltaire - he wrote a compendium against Christ and Christianity, but on his death bed he screamed in horror and cried out, "Oh God, Oh God, I am lost. Lost and without hope and without Christ." His attending nurse said she had never heard such horrible screams in a dying person
before and never wanted to again.
You don't have to end up as he did. Repent and turn your life to Christ before it is eternally too late for you as it was for him.
He is beyond hope now, but you have a chance while you still have breath in your body.
God still loves you and is giving you many chances to change.
What you do with it will determine your eternal future. Please don't harden yourself against the truth as Voltaire did.
2007-04-23 15:06:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
People are delusional. They perform intense mental gymnastics to rationalize the irrational and explain away the unexplainable. There's all kinds of "prophacies" in the Old Testement, but there's never any indication that they're talking about Jesus. Much of the old testement is incoherent jibberish.
The point is simple. Can you imagine God sitting on his magnificent throne in heaven saying this?
"As the all-powerful, all-knowing creator of the universe, I shall write a book for my creation, and I shall call it The Bible. Let's see, what shall I put in it??? Well, I want to be SURE to write about my absolute endorsement of slavery in both the Old and the New Testaments -- slavery is very important to me and I want people buying and selling slaves for thousands of years. And I want to be CERTAIN that the book shows how much I hate women in both the Old and the New Testaments. And I can NOT forget the parts about animal and human sacrifice, because sacrifices are an essential element of every proper religion. I want people slaughtering animals, splattering their blood and then burning the carcasses on a stone altar because the aroma is pleasing to me. And I want to make human sacrifice the centerpiece of my worship. And I CERTAINLY need to include the juicy parts about child massacre in both the Old and the New Testaments. Baby killing is something that I will emphasize throughout this book because it is very important to me."
Do you believe this? Of course not. Yet, clearly, if God does exist and inspired the Bible, this is in fact what God said to himself. God displays these tendencies numerous times in the Bible. Confirm them yourself by looking them up in God's word.
An all-knowing, all-loving God could not have written such appalling verses into the Bible. It should be obvious to you that primitive men wrote this book, not God.
2007-04-23 14:58:05 · answer #10 · answered by godofsparta 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
He has not yet fulfilled all that He will. He did say He would be coming back. Kinda like Arnold kicking but and not bother to ask for your name.
2007-04-23 14:57:09 · answer #11 · answered by Connie D 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋