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amose1550bce
As we all know Jesus was a Jew. How much influence did his Akkadian heritage have on him?
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lehmann520
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For you, Jesus was just a jew, for us He is The Light and The Love.
The Jewish people worship the One True God.
Christians worship the One True God who was made real in Christ Everlasting.
We are brothers and sisters in God. At the time of His birth, what else could He have been BUT a Jew. It was the greatest truth on the planet at the time.
As for His death, who else but Jews were qualified to send the message of His Agony and Passion?

His heritage is important as a message from God. THESE people are the ones He chose because they knew Him already. There were no others worthy of the honor of revealing God's Ultimate Sacrifice.


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amose1550bce
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Jesus was more than just a Jew. He was from a long heritage going back at least from about 1750BCE. This was the time of Abraham our first Jew. Jesus comes from the culture of Sumer which dates back at least to 4000BCE. His language was Aramaic related to the language of the Akkadians.

When Abraham left Harram he no longer had his personal god to intercede for him.He was aware of that and he took with him his own awarness that his personal god was purely spiritual.It was first time that his god was every where not confined to just a household diety which was common in the city of Ur and Harram.


Today Jesus has become that one personal god who interceeds for us as just as Abraham's personal god did in Ur and Harram. Jesus is a historical man who has left a legacy for some two billion Christians today. To say that Jesus was just a Jew is a understatment. Our Jewish brothers and sisters have left us with a way of life embodied in ethics and morals which are the foundations of our the way we live today.

I stress the human Jesus the historical Jesus not the Jesus invented in part by the various councils of Nicea,Jeruselem and other councils. Jesus lives as our own personal experience beyound doctrine,beyond rationalization which I feel are feeble attempts to explain something that cannot be explained only to be felt in our hearts.


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lehmann520
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Ah...Jesus as a human

how utterly boring...no faith, no beauty, no magic

typical of the modern mind.

Don't you people get bored?
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amose1550bce
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To take away the humanity of Jesus leaves us with only a etherial vague man subject to endless debate which makes him appear to be a moot issue. Jesus was a historical figure who changed the world. The parable of the good Samaritan stresses the humanity of Jesus and epitimizes who he was.

Jesus must have had a commanding composure and even some people who never knew him would have been affected by it the first time they saw him. His greatness lies in our hearts and it will live forever. This humanity of Jesus we can see everyday.His courage against the might of Rome,his compassion for the poor his healing of the sick stresses his humanity far more then some abstract rationale some people use to gratify thier ego's. Jesus is and will forever be human and even more so a humane being we can look up to.
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Dolores
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You tell me why truly having a belief in the lord ..and all he stands for..could possiblity be boring.

Have you ever really wanted something...and I'm not talking a fancy car,a big house...or a million dollars.I'm talking simple things...like a good job ..food on your table..or ever prayed for a close friend to get well,
I prayed for away to keep food on my table to ,do honest work each day,
and that prayer was answered..I don't have to bow down..to ,the system
for my needs...Because the one true god delivered my needs..threw Christian friends..I can go on because of that belief,and That's plain black and white..And there's even beauty ,and magic...in that.
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hesiodika
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What Akkadian heritage? The Assyrian Empire Collapsed in the 8th century BC - far too long a time period for oral memory in a non-literate society to be accurate!
Jesus is assumed to have been non-literate, and to be familiar only with the Aramaic language.
Babylonian myths were only of interest to the priestly classes, who claimed financial benefits from their faked genealogies.[ see the book of Judges ].
The Galileans lived outside the influence of the Temple and its politics; so Jesus would have had no interest in Assyrian mythologies.
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Explorer72
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No I find ancient history a rich, multilayered, complex and fascinating subject, actually. Then again, I'm an interesting person.

What I find boring is the mindless dogma of born agains and religious freaks.

I find more than enough beauty in the things that existence offers me. A sunrise, the smell of summer rain, the sound of rustling leaves in the autumn...the endless interests that I occupy my mind with.

If you knew squat about the real Jesus' life you wouldn't think it "utterly boring". But I suspect that's how you feel about most things.
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