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My religion is identified by scholars as “primitive Christianity”. Theirs is a “developed Christianity”. I don’t think the NT steers them wrong. Christianity began as a sect within Judaism. When the church broke away from Judaism later in the 1st century, and when the composition changed from...

Yes. Those which the New Testament writers assert have been fulfilled by Jesus. I seriously considered doing the same. I didn’t because I couldn’t walk away from Jesus.

Yes, I realize that the majority of Christians don’t believe like I do. It is with that in mind that I don’t self-identify as Christian on Christianity Board, even though I am a Christian. My Christian belief predates and excludes the Christian belief settled upon at Nicea.

He has a humble origin. That doesn’t preclude him from being a king. He is a real king in waiting. He will reign over all of the nations. A difference that I see between us is that I believe that some of the messianic prophecies have been fulfilled and the rest will be while you believe that...

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. There is no other. Y-H-W-H.

The messiah, I believe, is the supreme representative of the Jewish people. My messiah / the messiah was born a king. He didn’t sit on David’s throne at his first coming. He will at his second coming. Our shared expectation is, apparently, that the coming messiah will be a king, one human person.

Jesus of Nazareth is a Jewish person. Do the messianic prophecies expect the messiah to be a king? Millions of kings?

It’s the rather lengthy footnote 24 in the link I provided in my post. I’ll post the link again for you in this post: https://netbible.org/bible/1+Timothy+3 That’s right. I don’t. The only God I believe in is the only God whom Jesus believed in.

No, but mine may one day be on theirs.

No. I believe in the fire that consumes the incorrigibly wicked. Those of my neighbors who will be sent to their destruction will be sent there by no one else but the Messiah.

Even Jesus depends on God. Is there anyone else he depends on?

Jesus is coming back. What will he do when he gets here? And who will he do it with?