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Judaism and Christian faith are forever related in that way.[/quote] The two religions are diametrically opposed. As one Jewish theologian noted, ”Judaism is Judaism because it rejects Christianity, and Christianity is Christianity because it rejects Judaism”
Originally posted by oxmixmudd
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Irrespective of what people later believed, the historical figure Jesus of Nazareth had no impact on the world. He lived and died a nonentity.
Paul created his new religion [Christianity] premised on a man whom had he never met but whom he considered to be a soteriological figure; not completely a divinity but more than a mere human being. Later theologians, many of whom had been educated in the Hellenistic world including the study of philosophy, took his still partially formed theology and imposed their own interpretations and embellishments upon it.
The much later [fourth century] belief in a hypostatic union within a Triune deity [an entity that is also homoousion in that it shares the same essence] is taken from non- Christian [so-called “pagan”] Greek philosophy.
Without Hellenism the religion of Christianity could not have existed.
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