The meaning of suffering, dying and death of Jesus reveals itself not by itself at first glance, the death of Jesus of Nazareth is so senseless as any violent death. And so banal: a relatively insignificant itinerant preacher from Galilee, in Jerusalem, victims of an opaque graft between key political forces of the Jewish temple aristocracy and the Roman occupation. In the end he is, probably without formal process, was crucified by the Romans, allegedly as a rebel against the occupying forces. Jesus is one of many thousands of Jews, which the Romans ordered the same fate.
Anyone who thinks getting in the memories of his followers information about the background and details of this political murder, are wrong. The Passion of the story, it is available in four versions, but is in reality a version that returns the Gospel of Mark, but reads like the log on process and execution of Jesus. But in reality it is to process the attempt by some scribe Jesus-people, the shock, anger and sadness at the unexpected end of their master.
This Jesus-literate people do this in two ways. First, they make one guilty for the death of Jesus. The Romans for Jesus' death to blame is not advisable for a movement that is now preparing to break into the Roman empire foot. It is not past the fact that Jesus was ultimately crucified by the Romans do, but all this added in place of the person of Pilate as driven. Driven by the Jewish temple authorities and even the Jewish people as a whole. Jesus was executed by Pilate, because he was forced by the Jewish people. This is the conclusion which draws the Passion story in all four evangelists with slight shifts in emphasis.
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blame that beats any historical probability in the face, probably took place away from condemnation and execution of Jesus, any public perception, was not only due to Jesus' death. In it also expresses the frustration and bitterness over the fact that the Jesus movement was taken before and after the death of Jesus in Judaism hardly walk. While John the Baptist after his death enjoyed great prestige among the people, Jesus seems to be hardly found agreement outside a small circle of loyal followers.
on the fate of the Jewish people should affect this distortion of history of the Gospels catastrophic. Here are the roots of the Christian Judaism, the Jews of Christians staged pogroms and anti-Semitism that culminated in the Holocaust. Christianity is wearing a debt that does not wear, but who can only humbly. As much as enlightened Christians and church tours, most recognize this today, still has the passion story of the Christian scripture and claimed divine authority for itself.
is Still the Passion is more than a polemical diatribe against the Jews. It is an attempt to answer the question of the meaning of Jesus' death. Here, the authors look in the Scriptures of Judaism for clues. What is now the Reader as a chronology of events "that led to the death of Jesus, is intended in reality a very clever composition of allusions, associations, and citations of the Hebrew Bible that have that suffering and death of Jesus representing a divine plan of salvation. Here are
addresses different themes from the Jewish tradition and linked together. Jesus is seen as the Suffering Servant (Isaiah 23:12), or the suffering of the righteous wisdom literature. His suffering and death is seen as a commendable example of martyrdom after the Maccabean brothers (2 Macc 7). Many "facts" are simply 22 Psalm taken, such as the clothing distribution (Mark 15.24 = Ps 22:19), derision (Mk 15.29 f.31f Ps = 22.8 f) and the last words of Jesus on the cross (Mark 15:34 = Ps 22:2). The examples could be expanded any more. A good overview provides, among other authors: Martin Ebner, Jesus of Nazareth in his time. Social history accessible. Stuttgart 2004, 2nd edition, p. 204 - 214
An interpretation of Jesus 'death has finally deposited all others and is still one of the basic elements of Christian faith: Jesus' death on the cross is the bloody sacrifice by which reconciles humanity with God and was declared righteous. While this idea to be found in the Gospels hardly , it is especially in the theology of Paul in the foreground. Because of Adam's sin, for Paul, the relationship between people, both Jews and Gentiles, and God has broken down irretrievably. There is no way for humans to come to God on his own initiative to terms. It requires the blood sacrifice of Jesus on the cross to humanity back to reconcile with God. God himself has found willing to give them Jesus as atonement for humanity once again to reconcile with him (Rom 3:25, 2 Cor 5:20 and elsewhere).
This idea is simple schauderbar! Not only do they reveal the pitiful low opinion that Paul has the people, the man is corrupt in the root Beings. It reveals a God which is contrary to that of Jesus of Nazareth total. A God who has his son, and that is Jesus sacrificed for Paul, on the cross, is a butcher. The God of Jesus is quite different. He brings home the marginalized, directed to the downtrodden, and when Jesus forgives sins in His name, he does so unconditionally.
The atonement theology is one of the worst mortgage of the Christian faith. She is responsible for an essentially pessimistic world and humanity of Christianity. She talks a morbid mysticism, the word sacrifice, the suffering and the endurance of force forward as meritorious. She is responsible for abuse of power and violence, not least sexual violence. Not
last there is a connection between the atonement theology and attitudes to death, because according to Paul, Death is the wages of sin. Death is a punishment. Not for nothing is in our society that is stronger than her love, is characterized in good and bad about Christianity, not for nothing is displaced in our society, death and denied. Other cultures, such as those that are shaped by Buddhism, have a much more relaxed attitude to death.
So we end up but again at the question of how are we to understand Jesus' death. Does it mean the failure of his life's work? Does the cross Jesus as a charlatan, or as self-deceived? One could now quickly to the resurrection of change and look for the answer there. But the resurrection, be of a later review of the speech is declared not matter if you did not understand at first the death of Jesus. But the can only be understood in retrospect, to Jesus' preaching of the dawning Kingdom of God and the character with which he put them at present.
Jesus' death is the last and most powerful sign of the Kingdom of God that Jesus has set. In death on the cross Jesus identified himself to the utmost dawning of the Kingdom of God, until its dissolution as an individual. For fully realized in the final analysis, beyond the dimensions of God's rule of space and time. Who will finally enter into it, must cross the threshold of death. But this opens up a sense not of itself ....
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