The biggest problem facing monotheism.

[Daylight63]

The books that were written about Jesus portrays him in a certain way. For a variety of reasons, more than likely Jesus didn't view himself as the son of God.

It kind of sounds like in Mark 14:61-62 he does:

61 But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? But Jesus said nothing. Then the high priest asked him, Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

62 And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

 

[Cypress]

Where did I say that?

This is what is written in my book "Introduction to Judaism" by Jewish scholar Shai Cherry at UCLA. The money quote is that concepts of an afterlife and a "world to come" (olam haba) are pervasive in Rabbinic Judaism.



"Concepts of the afterlife are central and pervasive in Rabbinic Judaism, although the Hebrew Bible says surprisingly little about the world to come.

The Pharisees are the earliest Jews known to support the ideas of resurrection and immortality of the soul. There is irony in the Pharisees accepting the Hellenistic notion of the immortality of the soul and the Sadducees rejecting it, because the Pharisees are usually perceived to be less Hellenistic than the Sadducees. As the Rabbis adopted the position of the Pharisees both resurrection and the immortality of the soul become central in Rabbinic thought.

In the aftermath of the destruction of the Second Temple and the failure of the Bar Kochva Revolt, the idea of the "world to come" (olam haba) served as a theodicy without undermining the importance of the halachic commitment to life in this world. There is a wide variety of comments on life in olam haba in Rabbinic literature. It is clear that one’s experience in the coming world depends on one’s actions in this world."


- source credit: "Introduction to Judaism" by Shai Cherry, assistant professor of Jewish Studies, UCLA.

 

[ZenMode]

It kind of sounds like in Mark 14:61-62 he does:

61 But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? But Jesus said nothing. Then the high priest asked him, Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

62 And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

That was written decades after Jesus died, by someone who never met him.

 

[EdwinA]

As far as I know the Talmud is the principal text for Jewish theology, practice, and law in the three major sects of Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Judaism.

The majority of Jews, even in Israel, are secular and not religious. The Talmud is not the center of Jewish life, and in any event it has been abrogated frequently, same as the Koran has in Islam. Isaiah 42:9

 

[EdwinA]

So you're saying you can't show me that version of "heaven" and the "afterlife" in Judaism?

So you're saying you're too lazy to read stuff?