Doing Candida Moss

I could give away the secret of my book by critiquing the review Candida Moss did of Bill’s book ‘Killing Jesus’. For instance, Moss zeros in on Jesus’ last words;

“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

I became a theologian twenty-five years ago to thwart the rise of the Christian-right in the Republican party that Bill champions. I read the Bible for the first time at forty-two years of age. I wondered who “they” were. If Jesus is speaking of the Jews, I wondered why they “know not what they do.” Jesus is not a Celtic Messiah from Ireland that invented Christianity and brought it to Judea, thus, the highly educated Jews, did not “know” him, did not recognize him as their messiah, who had come to save them by converting them to the One God of the Celts. That an altered Judaic religion ends up being the only recognized religion of the Irish for fifteen hundred years, can be traced to these last words that are aimed at divorcing the Jews from their Messiah and transferring him over to Satan Paul to do with him what he will, and not what God will. Being a learned Pharisee, Paul knew fell well why the Jews are crucifying Jesus. As Saul, Paul condoned the stoning of Stephan. Did Stephan forgive Saul for bashing his brains out with a rock? What was Saul-Paul’s MOTIVE for persecuting the first church of ‘The Way’?

In my book I will show you why the Jews tried to kill Jesus THE FIRST TIME after he came out of the wilderness and read from Isaiah. The Celtic Priests had not read Isaiah, thus they did not have a clue about the meaning of these prophetic words. The Jewish priests and Rabbis, did. They KNEW their Torah.

There must exist a motive for murder – IF it is a case of murder. The idea that the Jews murdered Jesus, and did not KNOW they were murdering him, is the most confounding teaching in the New Testament. During the attempt to push Jesus off a cliff, he somehow gets away. Why this mob did not follow him – to finish the job – is perplexing! If Jesus said this;

“You caught up with me at last. I am finished.”

then we come down to earth after two thousand years, and, touch base with reality because Jesus knew his fate after being tempted in the wilderness by Satan. To make sure we never learn the truth, Satan Paul’s scribes do a job on Jesus’ disciples – who don’t have a clue what is coming! This is the Second Divorce, by those who Stole The Jew’s Religion!

Jon Presco

“She served as an academic consultant to the television series The Bible[2] and is a frequent contributor to the National Geographic Channel.[3] A Roman Catholic, Moss has specialised in the study of martyrdom. In 2013 her book The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom was published in which she argues that the stories of early Christian martyrdom “have been altered … edited and shaped by later generations of Christians” and none of them are “completely historically accurate”.

“He will sometimes omit stories if they seem historically implausible, but he doesn’t do this consistently. He omits Jesus’ words, from the Gospel of Luke, as he is being crucified: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” In his CBS interview he explained that it was impossible for people to speak audibly while they were crucified. Fair enough; but then why does he include Jesus’s final words from the Gospel of John: “It is finished”? Is there something about the word “forgiveness” that sticks in the throat?”

4. Jesus was/wasn’t political
Any follower of Internet memes knows that Jesus can be made to say anything. O’Reilly has vacillated between saying (on his television show “The O’Reilly Factor”) that Jesus was not political and arguing in his book that Jesus died to interrupt the revenue stream from the Temple and Rome and that “Jews everywhere long for the coming of a messiah … [because] Rome will be defeated and their lives will be free of taxation and want.”

Even though there’s no evidence for a direct financial link between the Temple and Rome, there’s no doubt that Jesus advocated for the poor. But O’Reilly needs to make up his mind. Is Jesus the man of the people seeking to liberate the oppressed from a heavy tax burden, or is he a peaceful man of God just trying to make a difference?”

Candida Moss

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Candida R. Moss is an English academic who is presently Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity on the theology faculty of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana in the United States. A graduate of Oxford and Yale universities, Moss specializes in the study of martyrdom in the early Christian church.

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[hide] 1 Education and career.
2 Books
3 Honors and awards
4 Reviews of The Myth of Persecution
5 References
6 External links

Education and career.[edit]

Born in London, England, Candida R. Moss graduated from Worcester College, Oxford part of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England in 2000 with a B.A.(Hons) in theology. In 2002 she received a M.A.R. in Biblical studies from Yale Divinity School. In 2006, Moss graduated from Yale University with a M.A. and M.Phil in religious studies, followed by a Ph.D. in Religious Studies in 2008.[1] She became a full Professor in 2012, four years after receiving her PhD from Yale . Her first book was the winner of the 2011 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise. She served as an academic consultant to the television series The Bible[2] and is a frequent contributor to the National Geographic Channel.[3] A Roman Catholic, Moss has specialised in the study of martyrdom. In 2013 her book The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom was published in which she argues that the stories of early Christian martyrdom “have been altered … edited and shaped by later generations of Christians” and none of them are “completely historically accurate”.[4] Additionally, she maintains that the Roman authorities did not actively seek out or target Christians, and only for a brief period of no more than twelve years in the first three centuries of Christian history were Christians prosecuted by order of a Roman emperor.[5] Moss writes regularly for The Daily Beast and has contributed to BBC.com, CNN.com, Washington Post, Huffington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Times Higher Education Supplement.