To explain my premise I must first discuss Judaism. Most Christians think it is just a religion based on the books in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It is more than that.<\/p>\n
Judaism is the religion, philosophy and way of life of the Jewish people.<\/p>\n
There are more Jewish texts than the Tanahk (The Hebrew Bible). There is also Mishnah and commentairies (Jewish oral traditions), the Tosefta and minor tractates (Jewish Oral Law), the Midrashic literature (legal and non-legal interpretations), Halakhic literature (a collective body of Jewish law as well as customs and traditions), a collection of Jewish thought and ethics, a book of prayer and liturgy and classical Jewish poetry.<\/p>\n
Judaism is a living religion constantly evolving as new Jewish scholars interpret these texts and oral traditions in new ways.<\/p>\n
According to the New Testament, Jesus was a Jewish rabbi who taught a different version of Judaism than the two major factions of the day. His appeal was to those who felt left out by the two major factions of Judaism.<\/p>\n
All of his disciples and all the authors of the books that make up the New Testament were Jewish. Not once in the New Testament does anyone identify themselves as Christian. When you read the history of the first few centuries of the followers of the rabbi Jesus, they were all Jewish.<\/p>\n
Another interesting fact is that no where in the New Testament does Jesus or any of the other authors make the claim that he is\/was God. No where in the Bible (Old or New Testament) does it state that there is a \u201cTrinity\u201d.<\/p>\n
Jesus was just a Jewish rabbi carrying on a very long tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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