To be amused at a discussion I can overhear?

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At work and currently listening in on a discussion where one woman is trying to explain to a colleague that Jesus was Jewish. Colleague isn't having it

Obviously Jesus was jewish.

I thought the Bible described Jesus as being fat, bald and olive skinned?

There is no physical description of Jesus in the NT.

Good read, this thread! It is staggering what some people think.

Jews look foreign? Yeah right.

Schadenfreude I have my dad to blame for that one then.

Not sure how more explicit he could have been
Well, he could have declared himself a member of The Judean People’s Front. Or The People’s Front of Judea, if he was a splitter.

Nonibaloni I think you must be one of my inlaws - DH, BIL and FIL all excellent at stating theories as facts. DH and I call it ing.

It is true that no one now alive knew how Jesus saw himself. But during his lifetime the rituals that we know he performed were Jewish ones, and he belonged to a Jewish sect.

Christianity was about the worship of Jesus after his Resurrection. So if you believe, then he was still alive and at this point could be considered not jewish. If that makes sense.

Breaking news
Archaeologists near Mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is presently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read "To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental."

Catholics certainly believe Jesus was the son of God and was not fathered by Mary's husband so if we are asking if genetically he was Jewish then no he wasn't under Christmas beliefs.

if we mean was he brought up in a Jewish home then yes he was.

If you get your Judaism from your mother... as some branches of the jews believe then it will come down to whether we think God implanted the whole child into Mary's womb or just the sperm. Mary was ostensibly a virgin and I suspect particularly if she was 12 (mixing myth and truth here of course) she might not have been fertile in which case the whole child was put in there by God and therefore had purely the genes God decided to put in there.

"The virgin birth of Jesus is the belief that Jesus was conceived in the womb of his mother Mary through the Holy Spirit without the agency of a human father and born while Mary was still a virgin. The New Testament references are Matthew 1:18-25 and Luke 1:26-38."

sadie9

Is this discussion like people thinking tomato is a vegetable? lol

I once worked with a girl who couldn't understand that ducks weren't fish, because "they live in water like fish do"

That's the funniest thing I've heard for weeks!

Did you send her to the fishmonger to buy some duck?

Catholics certainly believe Jesus was the son of God
Well, to be fair, they’d have to or else Paul O’Grady, founder of Christianity, probably wouldn’t have married one.

teenagefanclub

:o Are you enjoying the new series?!

If you get your Judaism from your mother... as some branches of the jews believe then it will come down to whether we think God implanted the whole child into Mary's womb or just the sperm. Mary was ostensibly a virgin and I suspect particularly if she was 12 (mixing myth and truth here of course) she might not have been fertile in which case the whole child was put in there by God and therefore had purely the genes God decided to put in there.

Yes but God is Jewish. Because the Old Testament is Jewish, so he must be.

If we are stooping to these bizarre levels of idiocy...

Jesus took communion? how could that possibly be ? unless he was in some form of wierd time loop

God shagged Mary

Not sure that is exactly how is happened! I think Mary's convo with Joseph went something like this
M: Joseph hun, errm, I have something to tell you
J: What is it my virginal beauty?
M: I'm pregnant
J: WTF???? But we have never got passed second base
M: Errm, God did it. I'm definitely still a virgin. Oh yes, that's the truth
J: That's ok, sounds totally plausible to me

God is Jewish

Does that mean he is circumcised? And if so, who did it? Or did he do it himself?

My colleague thought there were 2 types of fish. Edible fish, and fish that swam in the sea. Apparently both things were different and definitely not the same

I can't wait to catch up, I haven't seen it yet, is it as good?

Jesus took communion? how could that possibly be ? unless he was in some form of wierd time loop

The way this thread is going someone will soon suggest that he also carried out a paternity test!

Jesus invented communion! That was the whole reason why the Last Supper is considered so important!

That's amazing @SongforSal

er I think it was those who came after who invented it
you can't eat your own flesh