or perhaps just better people and/or better followers of God? your thoughts please...
2007-09-15 07:17:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus invited his followers to realize the presence of the Kingdom of God, here and now.
He was Jewish, from Galilee, a ways from the Temple-centered style of worship in Jerusalem. He used Jewish apocalyptic imagery, and was himself originally a follower of John the Baptist, who preached the imminent arrival of the Kingdom as a kind of political-religious revolution.
Jesus ended up having a more spiritual vision, however, realizing that the Kingdom is already amidst us.
He radically critiqued conventional understandings of Judaism, as in the parable of the Good Samaritan -- where a Temple priest and a Levite (another Temple functionary) both have to avoid ritual pollution by staying away from a potential corpse. But then Jesus in the story has a Samaritan do the right thing ... when most Jews HATED Samaritans.
It'd be like a radical Israeli today telling a story to other Israelis about a Good Hamas member.
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2007-09-15 07:22:44 · answer #1 · answered by bodhidave 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Better practitioners of Judaism.
He said that, he did not come here to change the law, but to fulfill it.
The law meaning Hebrew Faith.
Jesus was a Jew.
He was NOT a Christian, only those who followed him could call themselves Christian.
I suppose in actuality, because Peter was the one he left in charge, maybe all the Christians should call themselves,
"Peterians."
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I'd better watch out, the Christians will be wanting to burn us at the stake again, for heresy.
2007-09-15 07:42:23 · answer #2 · answered by ♫ Bubastes, Cat Goddess♥ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think there's a strong argument to be made in favor of the viewpoint Jesus never dreamed his preachings would go outside Judaism.
2007-09-15 07:24:52 · answer #3 · answered by Jack P 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Jesus called us to be his Disciples to tell people and spread the good news about God,s love.
2007-09-15 07:28:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree with Jack P: there's a very good case to be made that he never intended his message for gentiles. Paul, however, certainly did.
2007-09-15 07:28:50 · answer #5 · answered by garik 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
he called on us to love each other and love God above all. he said if we can follow those rules all others will fall into place.
2007-09-15 07:36:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He called us to be His disciples so that we can become the temples of God,
2007-09-15 07:22:18 · answer #7 · answered by Apostle Jeff 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
he called them to be better jews!
2007-09-15 07:24:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The first members of the new covenant.
2007-09-15 07:38:54 · answer #9 · answered by Sal D 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋