@XXSpadeMasterXX,
How do you know with certainty, that what you know about Jesus is true?
Maybe we gave it a spin over time. some people may have done it on accident while others did it on purpose.
We have shown just how ignorant and deceiving us humans can be throughout history!
Here is my spin can you prove it wrong? I am not making the claim that it is correct!
There was a group of philosophers called Therapeutae.
The Therapeutae were a Jewish sect which flourished in Alexandria and other parts of the Diaspora of Hellenistic Judaism in the final years of the Second Temple period
They were "the best" of a kind given to "perfect goodness" that "exists in many places in the inhabited world"
Now this class of persons may be met with in many places, for it was fitting that both Greece and the country of the barbarians should partake of whatever is perfectly good; and there is the greatest number of such men in Egypt, in every one of the districts, or nomes, as they are called, and especially around Alexandria; and from all quarters those who are the best of these therapeutae proceed on their pilgrimage to some most suitable place as if it were their country, which is beyond the Maereotic lake."
They lived chastely with utter simplicity; they "first of all laid down temperance as a sort of foundation for the soul to rest upon, proceed to build up other virtues on this foundation. They were dedicated to the contemplative life, and their activities for six days of the week consisted of ascetic practices, fasting, solitary prayers and the study of the scriptures in their isolated cells, each with its separate holy sanctuary, and enclosed courtyard:
In addition to the Pentateuch, the Prophets and Psalms they possessed arcane writings of their own tradition, including formulae for numerological and allegorical interpretations.
They renounced property and followed severe discipline:
They "professed an art of healing superior to that practiced in the cities."
On the seventh day the Therapeutae met in a meeting house, the men on one side of an open partition, the women modestly on the other, to hear discourses. Once in seven weeks they meet for a night-long vigil after a banquet where they served one another, for "they are not waited on by slaves, because they deem any possession of servants whatever to be contrary to nature. For she has begotten all men alike free" and sing antiphonal hymns until dawn.
Now as for their teachings, Here they are!
They see a need to take place in the minds of people because they realized that the people were engaging in all sorts of crimes and what the people would do is go and baptize themselves and confess their sins but this did not seem to help because society just kept getting worse!
So the Therapeutae seen a need to change this idea of cleaning yourself with water to something that would change the inside of you! "change your mind your behavior"
So the first and only miracle was performed by changing water into wine!
This was not ABC fine wine and spirits type of spirit but one of a different spirit. "A holly spirit" One of logic and reason!
It appears that Jesus was teaching people to use logical reasoning and you know how we can not have people being healed with logical reasoning?
Can you imagine people being able to hear and understand wisdom and logic with their ears when before they were deaf?
People would be able to see correctly so that they would not stumble over their ethical ignorance which they were blind to before! they were crippled in their understanding of reality
They were resurrected from their spiritual death and have everlasting life with logic and reason!
Can I hear an Amen?
I personally think that it was people just like today's Christians that killed Jesus because back in that time that is how many [not all] religious people behaved they were extremist absolutist
