The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a.God

[Stephan Huller]

https://danielngullotta.wordpress.com/2 ... ign=buffer

[Blood]

Sold.

"One of the major problems Litwa points out is that within the current climate of Biblical scholarship is that any sort of comparisons made between Jesus and other Mediterranean mythology, legends, and stories is almost certainly accused of presenting “parallelomania.” "

Academics outside of Biblical Studies/SBL, especially those with a PhD in Ancient History, writing about the Bible and Biblical figures is hopefully a growing trend.
After all, according to the SBL crowd, all of this is historical, so why shouldn't it be studied by Ancient Historians?

[Bernard Muller]

The earliest Jesus was declared a God in soon before 54 AD (my dating for "Hebrews"):
1:8-10
"but of the Son he [God] says,
"Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows."
And,
"You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth.
The heavens are the works of your hands."

Cordially, Bernard

[toejam]

Yep. Definitely on my 'to read' list. I also like Gullotta's blog. Would be good for him to tackle some more controversial stuff as he seems to be playing it pretty safe so far.

[perseusomega9]

To give Daniel credit, he does hang out and interact with us over at Dr. Price's Bible Geek fb page.

[Clive]

Two mosaics inside the church — one covered with fish, an ancient Christian symbol that predated the widespread use of the cross symbol — tell the story of a Roman officer and a woman named Aketous who donated money to build the church in the memory “of the god, Jesus Christ.”

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9950210/ns/te ... Il7F4sUcYU

Maybe Jesus was always a god?

[perseusomega9]

Two mosaics inside the church — one covered with fish, an ancient Christian symbol that predated the widespread use of the cross symbol — tell the story of a Roman officer and a woman named Aketous who donated money to build the church in the memory “of the god, Jesus Christ.”

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9950210/ns/te ... Il7F4sUcYU

Maybe Jesus was always a god?

“This was a time of persecution and in this way it is quite surprising that there would be such a blatant expression of Christ in a mosaic, but it may be the very reason why the church was destroyed,” Pfann said.

[Clive]

That Pfann has said a sentence that is impressive for its use of assumption, assertion and speculation! Why not read the inscription as direct evidence of an unnamed saving anointing god?

[perseusomega9]

Isn't it in nomina sacra?

[outhouse]

The earliest Jesus was declared a God in soon before 54 AD

Cordially, Bernard

Maybe by some.

I see grand diversity in what different people believed.


Litwa would make a better point if he explained better in context, it was part of wide varied early beliefs that took hundreds o years to funnel into orthodoxy which included much of what he posits.