Here is the Jesus book that I wrote from the posts in this blog.
http://www.pienisalaliittotutkimus.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/JESUS-decoded.pdf
some of my recent research mainly on questionable topics
Here is the Jesus book that I wrote from the posts in this blog.
http://www.pienisalaliittotutkimus.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/JESUS-decoded.pdf
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Hi Jorma,
I started reading your book.
The title of the book is provocative, at least to me it is, but I’ll read it in full because I’m already convinced that your book is very worth reading it completely.
It must have taken you lots of time, study and reflection to arrive at such a unique synthesis, in your search at the truth. I find it simply amazing stuff, all things considered.
Your knowledge and interpretation of the bible, of ancient and more recent history, and even of science is simply impressive, at least to me.
My habits and beliefs however most likely won’t change anymore, as I’m not so young anymore, and these beliefs haven’t harmed me at all, on the contrary.
Hi Wilfried,
Thanks for the kind words. No need to change your habits or beliefs, this is just a study I made on this topic as there was a puzzle in it. All studies I have made were made so that I would myself understand the issue, solve one problem more. This time the problem was: decode the cryptic hints in the scriptures and find out what the mission of Jesus really was about. No effort to change anybody’s opinions.
Did you ever get to read Michael Hudson’s book on Jesus? Also, I cannot wait to read your ‘Jesus Decoded’ study.
Hudson’s book is in the pile of books to be read, I have not yet got to it, but finally will. There is only two-three shelf meters of books before it, will be a matter of maximum years, not decades.
I did promise to read the book, but you see, a promising researcher always promises more than he can keep, but I will try to keep this promise in some years time. But I did look at the introduction of the book in Amazon and did not like the thesis. Hudson seems to claim that in Jesus’ prayer (Pater Nostre, Luke 11) the demand: as we forgive to those who are debted to us (in Finnish it does say debts), implies that Jesus’ mission was to pronounce the Jubilee year of forgiving debts, and the text even claims that Assyrologists maintain that the Bible is preoccupied with forgiving debts. It is not so.
Jesus’ mission was to be the prophet messiah (i.e., the mission was to redeem the sins of Jews) and from his disciples he demanded that they are perfect as God is perfect, as a sacrifice must be without fault. This way, by dying as sacrifices, they could go where Jesus went, to the Heaven. But Jesus does recommend taking interest in one of his parables: the kingdom of Heaven is like a man who finds a treasure and starts loaning from it with interest. The Bible is not preoccupied with forgiving debts. Only in the Book of Jeremiah, just before Babylon conquered Judea, the king pronounces the Jubilee and frees debt slaves, but the slave owners take them back immediately after it. The whole idea of Jubilee is to make sure that every family of Israelites keeps his land. It is only of land, not of other possessions. So, if someone sold himself to be a slave or sold his land, he would be restored to his earlier state in 70 years. This rule was not kept, but prophets are more worried of many other sins, like sacrificing animals that are not perfect.
Indeed, the Bible fully accepts loans with interest and proposes that Jews lend money to other nations with interest, but as the harmful effect of usury was known, it was forbidden to take interest from Jews. Jesus forbid taking interest and proposed lending money to those who do not pay back. This is just a part of the whole concept: do not judge others so that God will not judge you, do not demand loans to be paid so that God does not demand payment from your sins. It is because the Day of the Lord was imminent. It did not overrule the Old Testament and it was only to the disciples so that they could go to the Heaven. The rest would go to Sheol and wait for the resurrection and judgement. They would not go to the Heaven at all but be reborn on the earth.
Maybe this explains enough, and it is the reason I have not much cared to read Hudson’s book: it is mistaken.