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“The Real Yeshua” or a “Gentile Jesus”?


I have been involved in this discussion about the Jewish Jesus for almost 30 years now and am amazed at how “Fact-Proof” religious people are. In the mid-1980s when someone on a TV show mentioned “the Jewish Jesus,” it would generate thousands of letters and postcards from people wanting to correct the idiot that said it – “Jesus was a Christian not a Jew!” By 2000, thanks to the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, PBS, etc., the tide shifted and when someone mentioned the “Jewish Jesus” people would say, “Of course Jesus is Jewish.”

The problem is that people seemed to think that “Jewish” was an “ethnic thing”, not a “BS thing.” Oh yeah, BS means Belief System. They talked about a Jewish Jesus, but kept saying that he taught a bunch of “un-Jewish things”!

People like Marcion, Justin, Origen, Tertullian, Arius, Athanasius, Constantine, Eusebius and Augustine contributed memes from their Gentile cultures and reinterpreted his words into ideas and beliefs Gentiles could relate to. I mean they argued, fought and killed each other for centuries just the “one God” thing.

And, along the way, they attached beliefs and rituals from their former gods to him, even holidays like Christmas and Easter. So, today I hear a lot about a Jewish Jesus, but he is speaking Gentile things instead of the Jewish things the Real Yeshua taught. A lot of people have told me that the memes about “believing the right things or you will go to hell” is just too much for them to risk questioning it. It’s always more comfortable to believe whatever you believe that change – and that’s a fact!

We really want to help people break through their BS and cultural barriers so they can better understand the life and teachings of the Real Yeshua and his story was rewritten over the centuries to produce the different versions of “Jesus with a Gentile culture” we hear about today.  The problem is does anyone out really think that kind of information has any value – and be willing to shakes up their own BS if it is simply wrong! Would you?

We have tons of data and years of experience. We have watched all kinds of new Jesus groups spring up that “add bits of Jewish flavor” to their Jesus’s Gentile message. We have no desire to convert people to the Real Yeshua’s religion – because it was Second Temple Judaism and no longer exists. One thing we know for sure is that “freeing” people from blindly following any religion was at the core of his teachings! And we also know that his focus was on helping people learn how to relate and interact with each other in “Kingdom ways” – and that is just as relevant today as they were almost 2,000 years ago.

All we ask is for a few hundred people to stand up and pitch in by donating whatever amount they feel led to contribute. Be one of those people and have faith that others will value the Real Yeshua too. We are waiting to hear from you. We are ready to go.

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