Why were the Pharisees consistently depicted as the bad guys in the Christian gospels?

Thanks.

The gospel accounts depict Jesus as someone who frequently taught and debated in synagogues, someone who cited and interpreted Torah scripture, someone who debated Torah scholars.
All reputable modern scholars believe Jesus was literate in Aramaic, could read Hebrew, and that he received a Torah education growing up in Nazareth.

By any reasonable measure, he would have been considered a rabbi (religious teacher) by his followers, by the supporters of his ministry, by the authors of the gospels.
but not employed as a rabbi as we think of in the modern sense.

hey I taught my kid to ride a bike, Im a Rabbi, everybody, look at me and my important hat.
 
Agreed.

True...which makes one wonder where he'd been the previous 30-years prior to arriving in Jerusalem?
Good point.

Archeology demonstrates that even smallish Jewish towns in the first century had Torah schools for boys in the local synagogue.

Jesus' family seems to have allowed him get a Torah and Tanakh-based education in the local synagogue, and he possibly may have even learned a little Greek.
 
I never said anything about the modern sense. I specifically was talking about a Jew from first century Galilee.

You wanted to move it forward to the 21st century to cover your tracks about how wrong you were
but you're talking to modern people, and knowingly confusing them with your dumb bullshit.
 
The short crucifixion and rising-from-the-dead was the showstopper. :)

As @Cypress and I have discussed before, surviving a crucifixion was not completely unknown, especially one of a short duration. Lots of people have been buried alive by accident. It's very likely Jesus survived being nailed to a cross for an afternoon, even if he died of sepsis or infection later. Primitive peoples seeing him alive later would most certainly call it "a miracle". You know, like a burning bush, a plague of locusts or the parting of a sea. :thup:

No doubt a lot of stories sprang up from that single event. It helps explain why no one ever heard of Jesus of Nazareth until showing up in Jerusalem. The fact he brought a message of Peace, Love, Dove would add to his memory.
That would also explain why the apostles were willing to die for the belief that they had seen Jesus after the crucifixion.

People won't die for something they know to be a hoax or fabrication.
 
Torah isn’t exclusionary of non-Jews, you all just have fewer commandments than us (the seven Noahide laws). Righteous gentiles have a place in the world to come too. It also never demands perfection and always allows someone to repent and come back without an intermediary between us and G-d.
The bad news is that a lot of people have died in the name of religion.

One of my favorite stories are the Zealots and the siege of Masada around 73CE. I had the good fortune to tour Masada in 1987. Many of the movie props were still there. Most fascinating to me was seeing the wall the Romans had built around it.

Now, a study published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology suggests that the siege may not have stretched on for such a long time. Instead, the construction of the siege wall and camps around Masada may have occurred over just 11 to 16 days.

“From the Roman perspective, [the siege] was not such a big story,” co-author Guy Stiebel, an archaeologist at Tel Aviv University, tells Haaretz’s Ariel David. “They came, they made a precision strike and they left after a few weeks.”

To reach their conclusions, the team surveyed the site using aerial drones and photogrammetric 3D modeling. They then used workload calculations to estimate how quickly the Roman fortifications could have been built.

“We know that there were 6,000 to 8,000 Roman soldiers. And we have data and charts showing how many stones young soldiers can move in a day,” Stiebel tells the Times of Israel’s Gavriel Fiske. “The data is very clear. We are talking about a very short period to build the siege system.”


 
That would also explain why the apostles were willing to die for the belief that they had seen Jesus after the crucifixion.

People won't die for something they know to be a hoax or fabrication.
Agreed. They'd have truly believed it was a miracle to see Jesus "rise from the dead". While other people have risen from the dead before (e.g. Lazarus), coupling the odds of surviving a crucifixion along with Jesus' message of peace would have given a lot of people something to think about. Having ardent believers continuing to deliver the message, even willingness to die for their beliefs, would have been impressive.
 
labor Zionism are the socialist.
That would also explain why the apostles were willing to die for the belief that they had seen Jesus after the crucifixion.

People won't die for something they know to be a hoax or fabrication.
maybe they were just smart enough to realize that the pharisaic regime was total assholes and Jesus just needed to be the first one to say it.
 
Good. Now the real definition: Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property, and equality before the law.
Nope, you are redefining terms.

Good. Now for the real definition:

Liberalism is the empowerment to take a life, to steal elections, to loot, to be lawless, to be unaccountable for one's decisions and actions, to erase borders, to perpetrate lawfare on political opponents, to dismantle the Constitutional Amendments and for women, liberalism is the empowerment to take the life of your own child.
 
Nope, you are redefining terms.

Good. Now for the real definition:

Liberalism is the empowerment to take a life, to steal elections, to loot, to be lawless, to be unaccountable for one's decisions and actions, to erase borders, to perpetrate lawfare on political opponents, to dismantle the Constitutional Amendments and for women, liberalism is the empowerment to take the life of your own child.
Nice trolling. 10/10
 
That would also explain why the apostles were willing to die for the belief that they had seen Jesus after the crucifixion.
You haven't shown that they were willing to die.

People won't die for something they know to be a hoax or fabrication.
People absolutely are executed for running scams, hoaxes and fabrications. Who told you that they aren't?

Why do people run scams on criminals, knowing that it might get themselves killed? Because sometimes the rewards outweight the risks. You would understand this if you had gone to college.
 
Nope, you are redefining terms.

Good. Now for the real definition:

Liberalism is the empowerment to take a life, to steal elections, to loot, to be lawless, to be unaccountable for one's decisions and actions, to erase borders, to perpetrate lawfare on political opponents, to dismantle the Constitutional Amendments and for women, liberalism is the empowerment to take the life of your own child.
but you basically believed in the civil rights movements in the fifties right?
 
You haven't shown that they were willing to die!
Nothing about ancient history can be proven.
The historicity of the martyrdom of Peter is close to being certain, the martyrdoms of James son of Zebedee, James brother of Jesus, and Paul are most likely probable. The martyrdom of the rest of the apostles range from as probable as not, to implausible.

Also supporting the historicity of the martyrdoms is the complete lack of any alternative written accounts indicating that the apostles abandoned Jesus after the resurrection, submitted to Roman or Jewish authorities, or sauntered off into a comfortable retirement.

The complete lack of any alternative narrative is one line of evidence supporting the historicity of the martyrdoms.
People absolutely are executed for running scams, hoaxes and fabrications. Who told you that they aren't?
Think man, think!
When threatened with crucifixion and death, people who perpetrated a hoax will confess, rather than die for something they know is a hoax.

What the accusers thought about what the apostles believed proves nothing and is irrelevant. The psychology of the accusers proves nothing.
 
Nothing about ancient history can be proven.
The historicity of the martyrdom of Peter is close to being certain, the martyrdoms of James son of Zebedee, James brother of Jesus, and Paul are most likely probable. The martyrdom of the rest of the apostles range from as probable as not, to implausible.

Also supporting the historicity of the martyrdoms is the complete lack of any alternative written accounts indicating that the apostles abandoned Jesus after the resurrection, submitted to Roman or Jewish authorities, or sauntered off into a comfortable retirement.

The complete lack of any alternative narrative is one line of evidence supporting the historicity of the martyrdoms.

holy shit you're dumb.
Think man, think!
When threatened with crucifixion and death, people who perpetrated a hoax will confess, rather than die for something they know is a hoax.

What the accusers thought about what the apostles believed proves nothing and is irrelevant. The psychology of the accusers proves nothing.
dumbest shit ever.
 
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