2007-07-17 04:05:21 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
J*sus was not the messiah because he did not fulfill any of the requirements:
* The Sanhedrin will be re-established (Isaiah 1:26)
* Once he is King, leaders of other nations will look to him for guidance. (Isaiah 2:4)
* The whole world will worship the One God of Israel (Isaiah 2:17)
* He will be descended from King David (Isaiah 11:1) via King Solomon (1 Chron. 22:8-10)
* The Moshiach will be a man of this world, an observant Jew with "fear of God" (Isaiah 11:2)
* Evil and tyranny will not be able to stand before his leadership (Isaiah 11:4)
* Knowledge of God will fill the world (Isaiah 11:9)
* He will include and attract people from all cultures and nations (Isaiah 11:10)
* All Israelites will be returned to their homeland (Isaiah 11:12)
* Death will be swallowed up forever (Isaiah 25:8)
* There will be no more hunger or illness, and death will cease (Isaiah 25:8)
* All of the dead will rise again (Isaiah 26:19)
* The Jewish people will experience eternal joy and gladness (Isaiah 51:11)
* He will be a messenger of peace (Isaiah 52:7)
* Nations will end up recognizing the wrongs they did to Israel (Isaiah 52:13-53:5)
* The peoples of the world will turn to the Jews for spiritual guidance (Zechariah 8:23)
* The ruined cities of Israel will be restored (Ezekiel 16:55)
* Weapons of war will be destroyed (Ezekiel 39:9)
* The Temple will be rebuilt (Ezekiel 40) resuming many of the suspended mitzvot
* He will then perfect the entire world to serve God together (Zephaniah 3:9)
* Jews will know the Torah without Study (Jeremiah 31:33)
* He will give you all the desires of your heart (Psalms 37:4)
* He will take the barren land and make it abundant and fruitful (Isaiah 51:3, Amos 9:13-15, Ezekiel 36:29-30, Isaiah 11:6-9)
2007-07-17 06:34:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
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Matthew 20:28 - "...just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many"
Why does this contradict Jesus being Messiah; Jesus says this statement at the end of one of His dialogues with the disciples. The Son of Man is Jesus and He did not come to be served by people but He came to show people God and to serve others, by means of redeeming them from sin. We do serve Jesus but that was not His role as Messiah, His role as Messiah was to serve God the Father and bring people to Him by means of His sacrificial death on the cross.
2007-07-17 04:12:55 · answer #2 · answered by ShemaYisrael 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The prophecies of the book of Isaiah calls the Messiah "the Servant."
He would serve God and die to save mankind. (Isaiah, chapters 42 and 53)
2007-07-17 04:14:14 · answer #3 · answered by בַר אֱנָשׁ (bar_enosh) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he tried to serve but could never get the hang of the fact that you always serve and clear dishes from the left.
so he went into the messiah business which frankly paid less but the hours were better.
2007-07-17 04:10:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you truly know who He is and why He came like He did..You will see how religion has blinded many from seeing who Jesus really is..Humbleness is what He shared with others,Kindness,love,patenice,truth,longsuffering. You can't none of those things without Him..
He served you and died on a cross..He comes back in all His Glory..
2007-07-17 04:15:33 · answer #5 · answered by I give you the Glory Father ! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is an example for Christians to serve the Living God instead of being consumed with SELF!
2007-07-17 04:11:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you saying the Messiah should be served?
Why?
The service he rendered was to offer his human life as a sacrifice, so we can entertain the idea of everlasting life once again.
Personally, I thank him for the service.
2007-07-17 04:10:31 · answer #7 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why are the two mutually exclusive? The picture of the Messiah in Isaiah is of a suffering servant.
2007-07-17 04:17:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus came the first time to be the man Adam should have been and could have been if he had not sinned.
He also came to give His life for us.
The Scriptures say, "Greater love has no man than this than a man lay down hs life for his friends." (John 15) In that He gave us the example for the way to live our own lives.
We don't "die" for our God. He died for us.
We lay down our lives for Him............I can do much more for Him living for Him than I possibly could dying for Him.
However, when He returns ......................... it will be a different story. He will completely take over this time.
2007-07-17 04:14:34 · answer #9 · answered by fanofchan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is why the Jews missed the point.
They expected a war God demanding to be served and Jesus taught that God is not like that.
2007-07-17 04:09:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋