Being a psychologist, amongst a scholar of religions, who has studied Jesus and his behaviors, it is evident?

Question

he was well educated and the nearest place to gain a well rounded education was Alexandria, Egypt. A center for Jewish, Egyptian, Oriental, Roman, Greek cultures that revolved around a hugh Library which once existed here. Did you know the teachings of Jesus TAUGHT doctrines of SEVERAL, not just the Jewish FAITH ?

Whether or not Jesus parents were poor of not has never had anything to do with someone getting "educated." It was well known that many, many Jews lived and worked in Egypt. Why should Jesus choose to live in poverty IF there was work for carpenters in Egypt ?

Words for the birds - How would you know my "qualifications ?" Evidently they went OVER your head since not one word "answered" what I asked.

Words for the Birds - This is not an "English" class but a forum for the "intelligent" to articulate their knowledge. Not childish behaviors.

Answer 1

It was very rare for an individual to travel at that time. It took significant wealth to be able to afford not to work. Jesus was attributed a professional trade, one that would have required little academic education.

The Apostle Paul, however, displays a clear understanding of Greek philosophy, and uses Greek philosophical method in his presentation of arguments.

We may have very few actual quotes of Jesus' preserved in the New Testament, but his Jewishness was beyond doubt. No preacher would have been allowed to get up and speak in the Temple if his entire life had not been spent around, or at least in contact with, his community. He would have travelled to Jerusalem for Pesach (passover), where advanced Jewish theology was certainly available to him, but my studies haven't led me to think Jesus particularly influenced by other schools of thought, Egyptian thought particularly. (I didn't see him building a pyramid, or worshipping the sun, or even taking part in Ancestor-worship, although this was common at the time outside the cities.) He was conceivably influenced by the 1st century thoughts on Resurrection and Salvation in Judaism at the time, but all this was superceded by his own beautiful understanding of the nature of God as his Father, and the unique understanding that he himself was God made man.

(It is known that many Jews were in Egypt, but this is only known because the Jews chose to preserve their identity in this climate. The practice of deliberately not inculturating into foreign cultures is explicitly promoted throughout the latter part of the Hebrew Bible.)

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Answer 2

There were many well educated people who had never been to Alexandria. The Apostle Paul is one who comes to mind from the Bible. As to your assertion that "Jesus TAUGHT doctrines of SEVERAL, not just the Jewish FAITH ?" I would guess that your conclusion is based upon a supposition that that the Bible is not of divine origin.

One of the things that Jesus did while preaching to the Jews was to correct their misunderstandings of what God meant and required of his people when He gave them his law. Similarities between what Jesus taught and what other cultures already understood and/or practiced do not signify that Jesus got his doctrine from those other cultures.

Answer 3

As a long way as I recognise, there's no old proof that Jesus lived on the time whilst he's mostly inspiration to have lived, thus the absence of any church buildings for a well few hundred years after this time. However, the Gospels and the entire different books of the New Testament naturally relate to the lessons of 1 guy, as a result he have to have existed. To doubt that he existed might be like pronouncing that the entire works of Shakespeare have been relatively by way of any one else who known as himself Shakespeare. Would it make any change?

Answer 4

Christ was God, man! He had the knowledge of God! When the Holy Spirit of God enters into the equation, you can throw all your psychology mumbo-jumbo in the trash can. God heals thoroughly, mind, body and spirit. He needs no help from man and man's ideas of what makes the human mind tick.

If you are suggesting that Jesus taught about other religions as being okay, you are dead wrong. He clearly said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me." He defended the commandments, and at the same time, He taught against the way that the self-righteous religious leaders of the time were handling the affairs of God. He told them very plainly that they "shut up Heaven, so that no man could enter in, nor do you yourselves enter in."

He never taught other doctrines. Sorry.

Answer 5

Seriously. Put yourself there. Mary and Joseph could not afford to send Jesus to Alexandria---Northern bloody Egypt for schooling. Impossible. The ideas may have travelled to him from those places somehow, but seriously.. no way did he actually go to Alexandria and study.

Answer 6

Or maybe, since there is no direct evidence of his existence, scholars corroborated an image of Jesus, and their education shown through their work.

Answer 7

simply put jesus wasnt just supposedly a messiah but a teacher a smart man who was said to teach others

Answer 8

Are you claiming that YOU'RE a "psychologist, amongst [sic] a scholar of religions"???

If so, how did you manage to become so highly learned, while retaining the grammatical and spelling proficiency of a mediocre elementary-school student?

Busted!

Answer 9

well, there WAS a library in alexandria untill the christians burned it down for housing pagan writings

Answer 10

I wouldn't doubt it. He was God's son, He can teach anyone. That's cool. I don't think it says where he went to school in the Bible, does it?