it's a different story from 2,000,000 people making a complete break with historical religion
I never said, nor meant to imply that the revelation at Sinai, was a "complete break" from anything. Only that claims regarding an event that was said to have been experienced by 2,000,000 people (and that their immediate or near ancestors accepted as Truth), is something much harder to "fake" than some other founding event for other Revelations, such as a shepperd living in a cave for 15 years, or that of a teacher to 12. The fact that the [early] Jews, weren't quite as thoroughly observant of this Revelation, as one would wish, doesn't detract from the validity "strength" of the event, only goes to show how ornery we are, or taking it straight from G-d - "I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people." (Exodus 32:9).
When I spoke of Jesus accepting the divinity of the Torah, I wasn't referring to good ol' heretic you (Burn, Heretic! Burn!), but to "mainstream" cross-denominational Christianity (as if any uch thing existed). In order to make any claims regarding Jesus as the Messiah, whether by Jesus himself, or later, one must first posit that "being the Messiah", and that which "one is Messiah of" must both be Divine in origins. Otherwise Jesus would just be the latest "layer" of flapdoodle on top of this compost pile.
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Give me a break! ;-)
Date: 2005-06-13 08:44 pm (UTC)When I spoke of Jesus accepting the divinity of the Torah, I wasn't referring to good ol' heretic you (Burn, Heretic! Burn!), but to "mainstream" cross-denominational Christianity (as if any uch thing existed). In order to make any claims regarding Jesus as the Messiah, whether by Jesus himself, or later, one must first posit that "being the Messiah", and that which "one is Messiah of" must both be Divine in origins. Otherwise Jesus would just be the latest "layer" of flapdoodle on top of this compost pile.