steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
If you take the collective sound bites of Jesus as a whole they make no sense.I could never get the logical "reasoning" (or belief) behind these type of "Roman Jesus" theories:
The idea to write the narrative saying: Jesus is the 'King of Kings'. A King being high above Caesar, whilst causing the redundancy of worshipping Roman pagan gods.
The gospel writers had an audience in mind and it was not likely Jews. The supernatural son of god Jesus was blasphemous. They stonted people to death back ten.
The target was Roman gentiles. I'd say the author added the Caesar line with Roman convets or potential converts in mind.
Not professing allegiance to Rome would have been serious for any movement. Rome could be tolerant as long as the the armorer's and Rome's authority was acknowledged.
With Jewish nationalism and rebellion against Rome in the air a Jew in Jerusalem preaching acceptance of Roman authority would get no traction.