He rejected the "God" of the Old Testament, right? He said that Old Testament God does not exist! He then tried to introduce a new "God" concept that was so forcefully rejected it cost him his life.
2007-08-30 09:53:41 · 12 answers · asked by ideogenetic 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
{And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, he pours new wine into new wineskins.} Mark 2:22 (NIV)
{So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.} Mark 2:28 (NIV)
That was a radical, NEW God concept! He rejected the patriarchal God of the Old Testament.
2007-08-30 10:17:38 · update #1
don't know. history was written by men so who knows how accurate any of the stories are??
2007-08-30 09:58:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Close but not right. He stated that HE was the God of the OT in the Flesh. You see Jehovah is a Spirit but chose to enter the world through becoming a fleshly being that being we call Jesus, He is called the Everlasting Father, the Mighty God, by the Prophet Isaiah. The Jews rejected Him in favor of their man made traditions, and besides they wanted a Messiah that would lead them in a fight for a Physical kingdom and rn the Romans off. Jesus was not here to build a physical kingdom but a heavenly one. The Jews had made the Law unbending and yet they themselves excused their own violations of the Law. The Pharisees were the most self righteous. Guess they forgot what Isaiah siad, "All our righteousness is as filthy rags."
2007-08-30 17:02:33 · answer #2 · answered by cowboy_christian_fellowship 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, in that case he would have be crucified for being a heretic, not an atheist - he was proposing a new God, not the total absence of any God.
I don't recall Jesus ever claiming that the Old Testament God didn't exist; he just claimed that wasn't the way to salvation.
2007-08-30 17:05:53 · answer #3 · answered by teresathegreat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Jesus did not reject G-d; he was born a Jew, he lived as a Jew and he died a Jew. In fact if anything, Jesus was quite a hardliner, in the sense that he criticised some of the Rabbis of the time for saying that unhappy couples could 'divorce'!
Jesus was crucified by the Romans; they hated the Jews and they did not like the fact that Jesus was popular. The Romans were the only ones who ever practised crucifixion.
2007-08-30 16:59:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. He was crucified because he pissed off the Romans and that was their standard form of execution for those who they thought were rebels against the Empire.
(If the Jews has killed him he would have been stoned to death and the Xians today would be wearing little rocks around their necks instead of a Roman cross.)
2007-08-30 17:22:54 · answer #5 · answered by forgivebutdonotforget911 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He rejected Zeus and the Olympian gods so yes he was an atheist.
But yes I get where you are going and you are sort of right. It was the guys who made the bible seventy or so years afterwards that tried to be atheists.
2007-08-30 17:02:24 · answer #6 · answered by meissen97 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I have no idea what you are talking about. Obviously you don't know either. There is nothing in the Bible that even comes closely to supporting anything you just stated?
2007-08-30 17:00:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think that you are a little misinformed=He never said that God doesn't exist. I think that you should go and read it for yourself, instead of listening to others, that do your thinking for you.
2007-08-30 16:59:56 · answer #8 · answered by Cookyduster 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
oh man your aim is even worse than mine. I swear, and I thought I was off on this subject
2007-08-30 17:00:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO.
IF He DID indeed die for the sins of the likes of you Humans, then I would say that He was crucified for being a unwise masochist.
2007-08-30 16:57:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋