From a documentary I watched the Temple was a corporation as we would say today.
Ritual slaughter was big business especially during holy days. A str ream pf live animals in and dead cracases out.
The symbolism of Jesus the lamb of god would have been obvious, and highly blasphemous. A serious offense as it is today in Saudi Arabia for a comparison. The idea of a human being realted to god would meet stiff resistance and anger.
Religions, I agree, are business first. Mostly run by con men and liars.
Even Jesus had to run from the mobs when he claimed to be a son of god.
He invoked his holy book which showed him correct, as far as what scriptures said.
Gnostic Christians give that quality to all of us and that is why we are a universalist religion.
Regards
DL
Every brand, variation, and sect of Christianity has its own set of rationalizations. It is all the same to me. The common thread is that they all make Jesus into their own image.
In terms of modern psychology you could interpret the gospels as Jesus being a delusional bipolar manic depressive who hears voices from a god and thought he had supernatural power, like faith healing.
In the narrative he swings from the Sermon On The Mount with the meek shall inherit the Earth, to a manic rage in the Temple. Mood swings.
In the geopolitical context of the day with civil unrest and Roman occupation he was a wandering rabbi warning of impending doom by Rome unless the Jews got their act together. He would have been one of many, and typical in the history of Jewish prophets and criotics.
He was preaching to fellow Jews.
The initial Jewish followers were co opted by gentiles who made it ther own divorced from Jus daism.
What was passed down probably had little to do with a real person.
Whatever was eventually put to paper was hearsay.
