tehological insight

[dreamer_easy]

I am so pleased with the typo in the Subject line that I'm keeping it. Anyway, it suddenly occurred to me that the Crucifixion occurred because God promised not to repeat the Flood. Am I right?

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[drox.livejournal.com]

Jesus pissed off the Romans.

Did he? Seems the Romans were more than willing to turn him loose. He never really advocated overthrowing Roman rule (much to the annoyance of many of his own people, who thought that their messiah should do exactly that). He preached that it was perfectly okay to "render unto Caesar". He even hung out with tax collectors, and healed the daughter of one of the officials of the Roman occupation government. I think the Romans agreed to have him killed even though they knew (or their officials knew) that he wasn't really their enemy.

My (admittedly poor) understanding of the situation is that they did it to placate the high muckity-mucks in the Jewish community, whom Jesus *did* piss off (all those accusations of hypocrisy must have hurt). Said muckity-mucks didn't have the authority to have him killed, so they convinced the occupying government to do it for them, claiming that this "King of the Jews" was a threat to Roman rule as well as a blasphemer of the Jewish faith.

[trinalin.livejournal.com]

Well, I just checked with my dad to see what the "scholars take" was on why Jesus was crucified. His exact words were (and I kid you not) "Jesus pissed off the Romans." I had to laugh.

The current thinking now, in Biblical scholarship, is that all that rigamaroll with Pilate et al probably didn't really happen. It was probably just a Centurion leader who had Jesus arrested for messing up things in the Temple during Passover (my best remembrance of what dad just said on the phone).

It'll be interesting when a "Scholars Edition" of the Bible is finally published. Assuming they can agree whether to put in the noncanonical books or not. ;-)

(For more information on the research being done by Biblical scholars today, check out the Westar Institute (http://www.westarinstitute.org) AKA the Jesus Seminar.)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Now I have stopped laffing at your excellent ikon, I can comment that Jesus Christ Superstar doesn't count as a historical text. :-)

[drox.livejournal.com]

Jesus Christ Superstar doesn't count as a historical text. :-)

No?!?! Now that I think about it, my long-ago Catholic school religion classes probably don't count either... and they didn't have that happenin' music. I sure missed out. Oh well.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Our parish was so q00l we sang that pop music version the Our Father. And "Happy Birthday" at Christmas.