Who killed Jesus? Jews, Romans, or God?
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no one took Jesus' life away. He gave it.
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First, no one murdered Jesus, he gave himself freely to make possible our salvation and return to our Father in Heaven. Secondly, all sins can be forgiven by a loving and forgiving God. While I do not believe as noted about that either the Jews or Romans murdered Christ. Jesus knew what was necessary and again gave himself freely in harmony with the Fathers will.\n\nI do not understand why anyone would want to blame others for the gift of salvation made possible by the life, death and resurrection of Christ. While many may say Jesus was treated poorly at the hands of his oppressors, this does not take away from His willing sacrifice for our future salvation. I do not place blame for the death of Jesus, I give thanks for his willing to die for yours and my sins.\n\nPeace be with you all,\n\n+Michael
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One obvious answer is Christ.\nHowever, the real answer is Peter.  Christ did not worship Christ, and he was a Jew until He died.\nPeter, therefore, was the first Christian, its founder, and its first leader.
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The previous poster is incorrect.  Christ was and is perfect.  If He weren't then He couldn't have died for anyone's sins, thus negating Christianity altogether.\n\nTo answer your question, let's get a few things straight.  Inciting a riot means that you're trying to get others to engage in violence along with you.  There's no evidence of that in this story.\n\nAlso, you imply that the Romans had set up shops in the Temple.  There's no reason to believe that.  It's much more likely that these were Jewish merchants selling to Jews.  Therefore there would be no central authority to negotiate with.\n\nThere is such a thing as righteous anger.  Christ entered the temple and saw how it had been so cheapened that commerce was going on within its walls, dishonoring God.  He became appropriately angry and wouldn't tolerate it for a moment longer.  The Temple was a place to worship God, not profit on His name.\n\nI don't think it's at all comparable to the suicide bombers and such you see in the Middle East.  Jesus didn't harm anybody physically.  His anger was directly aimed at those who were dishonoring God.  He wasn't trying to create terror, He was forcefully demonstrating how objectionable this practice was to God.\n\nPeace doesn't mean passively accepting an unacceptable situation.
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Jesus was crucified by the Romans under Pontius Pilate.
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Well, just to help you a little here, Hitler did not believe in Jesus.  He felt Christianity was weak and didn't want his power being challenged by religious authorities.  (If the basis of your question is, "Is it alright to kill those who don't agree with you?" I hope you know the answer already.) \n\nHitler wanted to exterminate every Jew on earth, not change their minds.  His reasons for killing Jews (which is part of what makes the Holocaust so remarkable) had nothing to do with their beliefs.  It was all about their birth, and many secular and converted Jews were murdered alongside their orthodox counterparts.\n\nYou should really read up more on the holocaust.  It is possibly the worst thing in human history, and the only thing we can do to prevent something similar is to know how it happened the first time.\n\nP.S.- Here's the really tough question you might want to ponder; After ordering the murder of twelve million innocents and waging a wart to conquer the earth, if Hitler had recanted on his death bed, would G-d have forgiven him.
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If by "another prophet" you are referring to Jesus, I want to clarify that the Jews did not kill Jesus.  The Romans killed Jesus.  Of course, there were Jews who supported that action, because Jesus was causing a potential danger to them.  If Jesus claimed to be the Messiah, what did that mean to the Romans?  It meant that this Jesus felt himself to be the next king of Israel who would throw off the Romans!  So no wonder the Romans wanted him out of the picture.  But the Jews themselves did not want this kind of animosity.  They didn't want any more trouble with the Romans than they already had.\n\nAs far as the prophets ended with the killing of Zacharias......could we not say that Jesus was referring to those who came before him, since he was still alive?  Why would he include himself when he was not dead yet?\n\nAnd yes, Jesus was a prophet.  A prophet is more than a future-teller, although Jesus did do that.  A prophet is a messenger who tells the people God's will.  How can you all deny that Jesus was a prophet?
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jesus died on the cross with a criminal on either side of him. check the bible! x
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The Jews lost the right to be Gods chosen race of people when they murdered Gods son. However present day jews will be judged the same as all mankind.. for their stand or defiance against God and his kingdom
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What about righteous Jews? Is Jonah Salk, a Jew, not in heaven even though he saved millions of lives with his polio vaccine? How about  a Christian Nazi who killed an innocent Jew? Is the Nazi in heaven and not the Jew?
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>>>>I'm just curious who was historically the first on the land….\n\nThe trouble is that the question makes no sense. Both historically and mythologically the Jews were Arabs. They aren’t a different people, they are simply a different religious sect. Prior to the rise of Islam around 1500 years ago the Middle East and North Africa was home to thousands of different religions, and one of those religions was Judaism. The different sects were in a state of near perpetual war with their neighbours as well as with the great powers like Babylon and Egypt.\n\nFrom a purely historical perspective it seems that one of the numerous religious sects living in Palestine gained the upper hand, either through theocratic means or through warfare or a combination of the two. Gradually they absorbed all the other people of that region and formed the state of Israel.\n\nBear in mind also that even at the time of Christ present day Israel wasn’t entirely Jewish occupied or controlled. Much of it was in Samaria, the Samaritans being a Hebrew but not Jewish sect that didn’t accept the absolute sanctity of the temple.\n\nSo as you can see it’s not a simple case of saying the Arabs or Jews were there first. Historically Jews are Arabs and Jews never historically occupied all of what is now Israel.\n\n>>>> were the jews exiled or chased out or volunteerily left?\n\nA little from column A, a little from column B.\n\nRemember how at the time of Jesus Israel had been occupied by the Romans?  Needless to say the Jews didn’t like that, and the situation was further aggravated by the Romans doing various stupid and offensive things. Eventually the people of Jerusalem and much of Judeaea got fed up and rebelled. A lot of Romans were killed, a lot more Jews were killed, a lot of Jews killed themselves rather than be captured. \n\nThe Romans ascribed the unrest to a religious source and decided that enough was enough and The Temple was torn down. \n\nWithout the temple to sacrifice at the Jews had no strong reason to cling to Israel, and combined with Roman persecution they mostly decided to leave in several waves over the next few hundred years.\n\nSo you could say that it was a voluntary Exodus, but it was just as much a refugee movement.\n\n>>>>Why did the international community choose the land in dispute now?\n\nBasically because\n\n1)It is the traditional Jewish homeland and a lot of Jews wanted it back.\n2)Jews had a lot of political clout in Washington after the war.\n3) Jews had been regularly slaughtered in Europe over the last 2000 years, and the recent Nazi holocaust was by far the worst example. A lot of people tjought that it would be a good idea not let it keep happening, and decided the best way to do that would be to give the Jews their own country outside Europe.\n\nCombine those three factors and you see a simple solution to all problems/ The fact that Palestine was a British colony/protectorate at the time and Britain wanted to offload all its colonies as fast as possible helped no end.\n\nBenji Man  wrote:\n>>>>>Africa is the cradle of civ so I will go with an early nomadic african people.\n\nAfrica is not the cradle of civilisation. Asia is without a doubt the cradle of civilisation with a second nucleus in Central America.
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As a Jew, and because he would have died as a Jew, he would have thought that Christianity was pagan, with all of its similarities to the Pagan faiths that were so common in Jesus's day. Even Hercules had a human mother, Alcmene, and Zeus for a father, and Dionysus had a human mother, Semele, and Zeus for a father. Mithra died for the sins of the people, and on and on....
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USA Christians supports the Jews because they are their descendants even though they killed Jesus.  They have long forgiven the Israelites.
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Wow, everyone missed the boat on this one. \n\nThe most hated religion in the world is Judaism.\n\nHitler wanted to wipe the existence of all Jews from the earth.  The Egyptian empire (I believe more than once) went to kill all the firstborn males.  So did the Roman empire.  This very day, there will be people who are targeted by bombs and weapons fire simply because of their Jewish faith.  \n\nThe practice of "hating people of the Jewish faith" is unfortunately so popular that it actually has a name:  "anti-semitism" \n\nHey, I'll be the first to admit that as a Christian I'm not always greeted with "open arms" by a lot of people--but they're not mounting military offensives against me either.  And guess what?  There are a lot of "Christian-bashers" in the world, but they're not in the dictionary.
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No.  The first two were Jewish and they were executed by the Roman authorities.  For some reason the French top the league of Pope killers.
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The Romans murdered Jesus, not Roman Catholics.\nRomans were people who, basically, lived in Rome. The Jews didn't directly kill Jesus, but they did ask the Roman leader, Pontius Pilate, to kill Jesus. So they kinda had a hand in it.\nbut the Catholics didn't do it.\n\nRoman Catholics are called that because the Catholic Church is also known as the Church of Rome. It's called the church of Rome because the Vatican (Catholic HQ) is in Rome. The Catholic HQ is in Rome, because that is where Peter (St. Peter, the one in the bible) was killed.
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Jesus, innocent of all sin, allowed Himself to be killed for love of us all, including His enemies. \nMuslim terrorists deliberately kill themselves at the same time as murdering other people, out of pure hatred for anyone who doesn't agree with their twisted beliefs.