WHY WOULD JEWISH MONOTHEISTS START WORSHIPPING A CARPENTER FROM NAZARETH?
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Every time I think carefully about what strict Jewish monotheists began to say about the Nazarene carpenter, I am dumbfounded. The Greeks and Romans believed in lots of gods and goddesses who would, they said, sometimes show up on earth. But the Jews knew better! The center of Jewish faith for centuries, and certainly in the time around the birth of Jesus, was a strict monotheism. There is only one God.
WHY WOULD JEWISH MONOTHEISTS START WORSHIPPING A CARPENTER FROM NAZARETH?
WHY WOULD JEWISH MONOTHEISTS START…
WHY WOULD JEWISH MONOTHEISTS START WORSHIPPING A CARPENTER FROM NAZARETH?
Every time I think carefully about what strict Jewish monotheists began to say about the Nazarene carpenter, I am dumbfounded. The Greeks and Romans believed in lots of gods and goddesses who would, they said, sometimes show up on earth. But the Jews knew better! The center of Jewish faith for centuries, and certainly in the time around the birth of Jesus, was a strict monotheism. There is only one God.