ocAvatar4321 the only freedom fighting christ figures were Yehuda the Galilean tax revolter and later Baracopa.
Ironically this image Rome created and used to subvert people with enslaved you to their authority and mistaken precepts. Even those sects which oppose the RCC are enslaved by the image and the harmful false teachings and affiliation pride it brings. I even showed how they enslaved atheists by reinventing and redefining ideas and concepts so as to throw them off their intended understanding thus making rational & logical helpful ideology and philosophy distasteful to those outside the faith and tainting their understanding and nature as much as they are poisonous to theirvown flocks.
Hence the term wormwood in describing The great fallen star(messenger) who made them like that poisonous deadly herb called wormwood.
God loves you. God blesses you and keeps you. God forgives you. God gives His life for you.
The Catholic Church and Christianity did not learn this from Rome or from Roman and/or Greek gods. We learned this from the Jews. Jesus is not Yehuda the tax revolter, the freedom fighter. Jesus' message was "God loves us as a Father; our sins are forgiven." This man (who was not Yehuda) spoke to the Temple (not Rome) on behalf of the destitute, on behalf of widows and orphans. He healed the sick. He reassured people that the Kingdom of God is within everyone's reach--even the reach of those who could not afford to offer Temple sacrifices. God loves them, their sins are forgiven by Him.
Jesus spoke of manna, bread from heaven, how God nourished His people with it then, now He continues to nourish us.
It does no one any good to ignore facts or pretend that Christianity's roots are in Rome, not Israel and Judaism. I can teach you about Jesus in such a way that even if they continue to reject the idea that Jesus is from God, of God, he can still be held up at a shining example of a man the Jewish faith produces: What he stands for (love of God and his fellow man); what he believes (sins are forgiven); and the care and hospitality of Jews for the destitute, the sick, the widow, the orphans. Jesus did not get this from studying Roman and Greek gods; he got this from knowing and being of the Jewish faith.
you have learned some very odd things about the life and times of Jesus. The temple at that time had absolutely nothing to do with taxes----that was rome. That
which you call "salvation" was not contingent on private humans donating "sacrifices"----most private "sacrifices" were means related. for the very poor----
a pigeon ----a few times in ones life was about it. The temple had no possible way of
supporting the poor.-----it was purely ceremonial like the present day queen of England--business conducted in the gates thereof was controlled and pillaged by rome. ---which is why the Pharisees despised the "money changers" and the roman appointed shills
who got into the priesthood------the "high priest' CAIPHAS is still a dirty name in Jewish history as it was back then. The "message" conveyed by jesus by the words ascribed to him------were simply the very popularized ideas of Hillel. It is the
details of ROMAN CHRISTIANITY that are very roman----from popes to saints to
"gods" impregnating humans all the way to the canon laws and the inquisition.
That Pontius Pilate ----still a dirty name in jewish history, gets a kind of free pass---
boggles my mind
Jews are so innocent, as pure as the driven snow. Everything, I mean everything is blamed on someone else.
you responded to my post in which I highlighted a very negative JEWISH character-------CAIPHAS-------gee you are clueless