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"Roman influence divested Christianity of some of
its profound primeval
psychological knowledge. Christian tribes developing under different
cultural conditions created forms so variegated that maintaining unity turned
out to be an historical impossibility." -
Andrew M. Lobaczewski Jesus fasted for forty days and nights in the Judaean Desert.
Driven by the Holy Spirit into the desert, Jesus remains there for
forty days without eating; he lives among wild beasts, and angels minister to
him.
The evil one tempts Jesus to bend the physics of reality thus
gaining the keys to all the kingdoms of the world but Jesus declines.
At this point in time he became the Lamb of God, divinely chosen to
fight the corruption of the traditions of the founders of Israel, showing
everyone the path to righteousness.
Cathartic breakthroughs can occur
without 40 days of fasting through Jesus.
In the first few centuries,
there were a number of conflicts over which
direction the Roman Catholic
Church would take.
The earliest conflict revolved around
Saul of Tarsus, a
Hellenized Hebrew
convert to the Zaddikim Cult,
which already had a
supernatural Hebrew Messiah, versus
James, the brother of
Jesus, also known as James the Just.
Saul of Tarsus, the
reformulated "Paul", won out in
a largely Hellenized
population so it is no surprise the writing of
Saul of Tarsus dominate
the New Testament.
This form
of Christianity is known as Pauline
Christianity.
The conversion of
Saul of Tarsus into "Paul" can
be dated to a couple years after the
crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, by reference to it in his letters.
According to the account in
Acts, it took place on the road to Damascus, where
he reported having experienced a vision of the resurrected Jesus.
The
account says that "he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him,
Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" Saul replied, "Who art thou, Lord? And
the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest!"
In Galatians 1:16 Saul
writes that God "was pleased
to reveal his son to me."
In 1 Corinthians 15:8, as he lists the
order in which Jesus appeared to his
disciples after his resurrection, Saul writes, "last of all, as to one
untimely born, He appeared to me also."
Saul was a
young Hellenized Hebrew Zaddikim
fanatic charged with the
seizure and the execution of disciples of Jesus.
On the road to Damascus Saul was struck with
the realization that he could mold the evolving legend of Jesus,
one of the last Tannaim.
Within the Sanhedrin the last
remaining elements of a Hasmonean high priest inner circle cult, the Zaddikim,
still existed.
The Zaddikim,
an extremist apocalyptic sect,
stated aim was to invoke the
intervention of supernatural powers to establish Israel as a sovereign
realm.
The Zaddikim, the inner circle of the
Hasmonean dynasty
Sadducees, had Sicarii
leadership to rouse the zealotry of the peasants.
"His whole state of mind shows the influence of the
Hellenistic lore of Alexandria, especially the
Hermes literature,
hence his strange belief in supernatural powers.
Throughout Paul's
writings an irrational
or pathological element could not but repel the disciples of the Rabbis.
The conception of a new faith, half pagan and half Jewish, such as Saul
preached, and susceptibility to its influences, were altogether foreign to the
nature of Jewish life and thought." - Kaufmann Kohler, rabbi Emeritus of Temple
Beth-El, New York
Modern scholars believe that Jesus preached mainly to
Hebrews as Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist whose opinions he would have
shared.
James, as leader of the Jerusalem Church, taught both Aramaic
and Greek speakers.
Saul of Tarsus, as the 'Apostle to
the Gentiles,' made the teaching of Jesus relevant and interesting to the
Hellenized population.
In order for the fledgling Christianity to gain
attention in the Hellenized culture,
the religion had to obtain certain characteristics common to the other gods and
religions of that time.
There was a ready structural model to be found
in the State religion of Rome which had adopted the myths of the Greek city
states which had been spread throughout the Mediterranean by the Greek
colonizers - the best known of which was
Alexander III of Macedonia who
conquered all cultures from the Ionian Sea to the Himalayas. |
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