Bro. Why else would Jesus be claimed to be a demigod. Jews never believed that God and humans mix. That’s standard Greek half god paganism.
Bro. Why else would Jesus be claimed to be a demigod. Jews never believed that God and humans mix. That’s standard Greek half god paganism.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Jesus never claimed to be a demigod, and is not a demigod. Jesus is and claimed to be God incarnate in Human Form. There are several instances in the Torah and Old Testament where God appears in human form.
Scrogu@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
A greek style demi god is when a god causes a human woman to give birth. Is that not the case here?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
A demigod is half human and half god. This isn’t the case for Jesus. Jesus is fully human and fully God. The Virgin Birth was also prophecied in Hebrew
Scrogu@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Without any clear definition of a god not sure this distinction means anything.
The point is about how the receiving greeks would have interpreted this new religion and that would be based more on their Greek mythology than it would on Hebrew mythology.