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What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?
« on: September 03, 2016, 11:49:56 pm »
What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?


Nicholas Kristof SEPT. 3, 2016

ONE puzzle of the world is that religions often don’t resemble their founders.

Jesus never mentioned gays or abortion but focused on the sick and the poor, yet some Christian leaders have prospered by demonizing gays. Muhammad raised the status of women in his time, yet today some Islamic clerics bar women from driving, or cite religion as a reason to hack off the genitals of young girls. Buddha presumably would be aghast at the apartheid imposed on the Rohingya minority by Buddhists in Myanmar.

“Our religions often stand for the very opposite of what their founders stood for,” notes Brian D. McLaren, a former pastor, in a provocative and powerful new book, “The Great Spiritual Migration.”

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Re: What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2016, 11:57:11 pm »
That's easy.

The one He founded.
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Re: What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2016, 12:23:19 am »
Yeshua does not belong to religion. Religion belongs to Him.
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Re: What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2016, 12:35:55 am »
Quote from: sinkspur on September 03, 2016, 11:57:11 pm
That's easy.

The one He founded.

Christianity, duh
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Re: What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2016, 04:41:25 am »
Quote from: sinkspur on September 03, 2016, 11:57:11 pm
That's easy.

The one He founded.

Nah.  He wouldn't worship himself.

He'd still be Jewish.
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Re: What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2016, 11:41:13 am »
Would?

He was well-documented to be Jewish. He was a harsh critic of the leadership of his time, but make no mistake about it, he was Jewish. Even the first few people to worship him, such as Peter, were Jewish. It wasn't until Paul started preaching to other groups that Christianity broke from Judaism.
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Re: What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2016, 12:00:19 pm »
Matthew 5:17 KJ21   “Think not that I am come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
Jesus didn't Need to talk about every sin we could possibly commit. Sin is sin. Ha was not wanted by the Jews. He was the Son of God. The Messiah. The never accepted that. And their leaders had a hand in his crucifixion.
Religion isn't what Jesus was about. He is about a new way is life. The best!
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Re: What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?
« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2016, 02:58:14 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on September 03, 2016, 11:49:56 pm
What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?


Nicholas Kristof SEPT. 3, 2016

ONE puzzle of the world is that religions often don’t resemble their founders.

Jesus never mentioned gays or abortion but focused on the sick and the poor, yet some Christian leaders have prospered by demonizing gays. Muhammad raised the status of women in his time, yet today some Islamic clerics bar women from driving, or cite religion as a reason to hack off the genitals of young girls. Buddha presumably would be aghast at the apartheid imposed on the Rohingya minority by Buddhists in Myanmar.

“Our religions often stand for the very opposite of what their founders stood for,” notes Brian D. McLaren, a former pastor, in a provocative and powerful new book, “The Great Spiritual Migration.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opinion/sunday/what-religion-would-jesus-belong-to.html?ref=opinion

Jesus doesn't belong to any religion. Religion is a man made corporation. Selling tainted goods.
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Re: What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?
« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2016, 09:07:31 pm »
Well, if anybody is of a mind to find out, the last half of Ezekiel tells quite a bit about religion when the Prince walks in Jerusalem.

And it ain't anything like Christian.
And it ain't Rabbinic Judaism either.

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Re: What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?
« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2016, 09:20:32 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on September 03, 2016, 11:49:56 pm
What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?


Nicholas Kristof SEPT. 3, 2016

ONE puzzle of the world is that religions often don’t resemble their founders.

Jesus never mentioned gays or abortion but focused on the sick and the poor, yet some Christian leaders have prospered by demonizing gays. Muhammad raised the status of women in his time, yet today some Islamic clerics bar women from driving, or cite religion as a reason to hack off the genitals of young girls. Buddha presumably would be aghast at the apartheid imposed on the Rohingya minority by Buddhists in Myanmar.

“Our religions often stand for the very opposite of what their founders stood for,” notes Brian D. McLaren, a former pastor, in a provocative and powerful new book, “The Great Spiritual Migration.”

more
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opinion/sunday/what-religion-would-jesus-belong-to.html?ref=opinion

God does not need a religion.  Religion needs Him.
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Re: What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?
« Reply #10 on: September 04, 2016, 09:23:40 pm »
It reads like Kristof really doesn't understand Jesus or religion.
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Re: What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?
« Reply #11 on: September 04, 2016, 10:09:47 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on September 03, 2016, 11:49:56 pm
What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?

"Muhammad raised the status of women in his time"


Yeppers. They went from the bottom of the heap to third place. Right behind the camel and the donkey.
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