Messianics - regarding Passover Lamb symbolism?
I have been noting lately that it is normative for people self-indentifying as "Messianics" to claim that Yeshu is the Passover Lamb.
It also happens to be that Jewish, Egyptian, and Roman documents written between the second century BC and second century AD (like Manetho, Josephus, Tacitus)
are all in agreement that to the degree that the Passover lamb was symbolic of any deity, it was a Jewish "blasphemy" of the Egyptian god Ra.
ie: the Jews basicaly saying to their Egyptian overseers "Nya, Nya, we are eating your god!"
It thus being the case that it was the shared belief of all relevant cultures at the time that Jesus and his immediate Jewish followers were alive that the Passover Lamb was symbolic of an Egyptian idol,
can we drop the whole "Messiah Yeshu" pretense, admit that you are worshiping the chief god of Egypt
and move to truth in labeling by calling your religion "Egyptian-neo-paganism"?
@Petes Sake -- regarding which premise?
@"Jesus Kosher Rock"
> Where have you been? This has been a staple of theology (including
Christian theology) for centuries.
Well -- note how I did not direct this to normative Christians.
The so-called Messianics always claim that they are different.
You also claim, in contradiction to the Jewish assertion that you are in fact simply normative Protestant Christians, that there is some connection to the Jewish followers of Jesus.
@Kosher Rock cnt'd
Thus -- seeing that there is no known Jewish mesorah for interpreting ANY sacrifice as "eating God",
but there IS first century Jewish writing that quite clearly connects the Passover Lamb to "God's judgements against the gods of Egypt" and specificaly states that the Jews placed the blood on their doors as a show of faith to God because it would certainly enflame the anger of the Egyptians due to the Egyptians seeing the slaughter of the lamb as a blasphemy of their God,
And, seeing as the Egyptian writers of the period (as well as the Greek and Roman historians who dealt with the subject)
quite clearly also saw the Passover sacrifice as Jews symbolicaly eating Ra,
ie: any Roman-era person (Jew or Egyptian or Greek) who said "Yeshu is the lamb"
was quite clearly and openly saying that "Yeshu is Ra"