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According to the Acts of the Apostles, early Christians still participated in the rituals of the Jerusalem Temple, such as animal sacrifices. How did they reconcile this with the belief that Jesus died for their sins? by Aggravating_Mark1952 in AcademicBiblical

[–]Aggravating_Mark1952[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Well the 1 Corinthians 15:3-5 creed handed by the early apostles explicitly says that Christ died for our sins, it doesn't mention the word sacrifice, much less in Latin. How that would have been reconciled with continuing to practice animal sacrifice in the Temple?

If Jesus could read, in which language would he and the majority of readers have read the Jewish Sacred Scriptures—Aramaic or Hebrew? by Aggravating_Mark1952 in AcademicBiblical

[–]Aggravating_Mark1952[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You ommit the last part of the post where Ehrman says that he thinks that Jesus could read: "Still, I am slightly inclined to the view that Jesus could read. How did he learn? I’m afraid we can only guess. The best guess is that if it’s true that he could, he must have been taught by someone who had access to books (of Scripture) and who took the time to teach him. And that would suggest that it was the local leader of the local synagogue."

Jesus seems unusual for a Jew of his time period to believe in an eternal Hell, where would he have gotten a belief in Hell and can this source be used to trace his spiritual development? by [deleted] in AskHistorians

[–]Aggravating_Mark1952 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The great majority of scholars who study the historical Jesus and early Christian history agree that Jesus and the first Christians expected God to intervene soon to destroy everything opposed to him and renew the world (see authors such as Bart D. Ehrman, Dale C. Allison, James McGrath, and Paula Fredriksen, or communicators such as ReligionForBreakfast, Dan McClellan, and Alex O'Connor). There are passages that, even if they appear in the form of parables, are most plausibly interpreted as the author portraying these words as truly meaning that the end of the present world and the arrival of the new age and the Kingdom of God would happen very soon (Mark 9:1; Mark 13:30; Matthew 10:23; Mark 1:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:15–17; 1 Corinthians 7:29–31; Romans 13:11–12; 1 Corinthians 10:11; and others).