Regarding Two Visions
I think that its very interesting that people would want to take Jesus outside of his own ethnic lens, but that is exactly what people do. Some take him and put him in a Roman lens or in other Mediterranean cultures. This historical lens distorts the message of Jesus though. Sure he opened up salvation to the gentiles, and essentially condemned the old religion, but that was as a Jew, fulfilling Jewish prophecy, not something else.
N.T. Wright argues that what Jesus did and said MUST have made sense in a Jewish context because he gained Jewish followers based on a message who's relevance would only make sense in a Jewish theological and sociopolitical context. Jesus message was one of release from bondage, and the Jewish people wanted out from under Roman rule. God just had a grander plan for His people... for all His people, but that doesn't make it any less Jewish. Jesus life, message, and works are more of a fulfillment of Judaism, not something from outside of the Jewish tradition!
I think that its very interesting that people would want to take Jesus outside of his own ethnic lens, but that is exactly what people do. Some take him and put him in a Roman lens or in other Mediterranean cultures. This historical lens distorts the message of Jesus though. Sure he opened up salvation to the gentiles, and essentially condemned the old religion, but that was as a Jew, fulfilling Jewish prophecy, not something else.
N.T. Wright argues that what Jesus did and said MUST have made sense in a Jewish context because he gained Jewish followers based on a message who's relevance would only make sense in a Jewish theological and sociopolitical context. Jesus message was one of release from bondage, and the Jewish people wanted out from under Roman rule. God just had a grander plan for His people... for all His people, but that doesn't make it any less Jewish. Jesus life, message, and works are more of a fulfillment of Judaism, not something from outside of the Jewish tradition!
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