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temple The Jews worship one god and, in Jesus’ day, they sacrificed to him at one temple only. This was the temple in Jerusalem, where the LORD himself was mysteriously present. In Jesus’ day, this was Herod’s temple, as the king had rebuilt the temple in grand style, albeit with the blasphemous image of a Roman eagle over the main gate. John the washer’s ministry was an implicit rejection of the temple, the traditional place to get one’s sins forgiven. Jesus’ ministry as well preached forgiveness of sins without recourse to the temple or its priests. When Jesus took his ministry from Galilee to Jerusalem, he disrupted business as usual at the temple, a threatening gesture that got him killed. The holy city of Jerusalem was under Jewish control, so when Jesus caused trouble at the temple it was Jewish security that picked him up, not Roman centurions. After Jesus died and was hailed as the resurrected Christ, his followers were mostly Jewish, and they revered the temple like any other Jews. But the apostle Paul preached that the temple cult and Jewish purity laws no longer applied now that Christ had made the ultimate sacrifice for all humanity. The controversy over whether Christianity was to be Jewish basically lasted until the Romans destroyed the temple in 70. The catastrophe that Caiaphas delayed by having Jesus killed broke out as the Jewish war of 66, ending with the temple’s destruction. With the fall of Jerusalem, the Jewish sect of Christians lost their standing and Paul’s gentile Christianity was the clear winner. The gospels then laid out the idea that Jesus had predicted the temple’s fall, and that in his death on the cross he had torn the veil of the temple, releasing the LORD to all the earth and pulling the temple’s exclusive franchise on the divine presence.
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contents table of contents you're already looking at it introduction for the inquisitive reader biographical overview who he was and wasn't
afterlife not Jesus' concern animal sacrifice bloodless religion apocalypse did Jesus preach hellfire? baptism sin wash for Jesus and others beatitudes Jesus' words and others' words beloved disciple witness for the un-gospel bible scripture old and new bishop the unjesus body focus on the physical Buddha Jesus' close kin charity key Christian virtue and legacy of Jesus The Da Vinci Code secret (and false) messages divorce women's status dreams convenient literary device Elijah Jewish prophet with his own second coming equality ancient source of modern egalitarianism exorcist Jesus and demons failure reinterpreting Jesus as a failure faith from trust to blind belief father Jesus on titles of honor Francis of Assisi the most Christlike Christian Gandhi the 20th century's most Christly holy man Galilee Jesus' inauspicious homeland gentiles Jesus' inadvertent audience god how Jesus became god golden rule key to Jesus' success gospels competing accounts heaven from sky to spiritual home hell revenge fantasy humanism Jesus' legacy inerrant Christian treatment of scripture Thomas Jefferson ethics of Jesus Jewish guilt Christian libel John's gospel the un-gospel John the baptist, see John the washer John the washer Jesus' apocalyptic mentor Judaism libeled religion of Jesus kingdom of god what Jesus promised Lao Tzu poet of the cosmic way logos jesus as the word of god C. S. Lewis famous, flawed trilemma little drummer boy Luke beats Matthew logos Jesus as the divine word LORD Yahweh transitioning to the one god of all Luke's gospel the all-around best gospel Mark's gospel the gospel that lost its point Mary of Magdala women, visions, and sex massacre of the innocents bloodshed starts early Matthew's gospel best gospel for church reading Mormon, see Joseph Smith Moses Jewish lawgiver Muhammad a prophet who got it right mystery Orpheus and transubstantiation oppression origin of Jesus' compassion The Passion of the Christ Luke as buzzkill Paul revealer of the revealer private and public public Jesus and secret Christ relativism the secret power of the golden rule sacrifice Jesus' death and Christian sacrament Albert Schweitzer Jesus as a failure sheol dark pit of death show Jesus' deeds as put-ons slavery abolished by Jesus' efforts Joseph Smith flesh-and-blood Jesus Socrates secular Jesus son of god on close terms with the man upstairs soul, see body synoptics three gospels that agree temple center of Jewish religion trinity unifying and divisive doctrinre vision, see dreams Yahweh, see LORD Zoroaster Persian dualistic holy man
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