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Originally Posted by Igzy
Zeek, I think we can presume that Jesus was not mistaken in his assessment of the OT. We are not going to question his status as the Messiah on this board. And I think it is utterly stupid to takes seriously a scenario where the Messiah of the Jewish people would not be clear on the authority of the Jewish sacred texts.
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Many of Jesus' contemporaries thought that the messiah would vanquish the Romans and deliver the kingdom back to the nation of Israel. Jesus did not do that in a literal sense. So, if he was the messiah he was messiah in a different sense than they expected. Of course, the ones who later were called Christians were the one's who "got" the sense in which Jesus IS the messiah. The questions of those who did not accept Jesus as the messiah are part of the putatively inerrant New Testament historical record. According to the definition of inerrancy I quoted. "4. Being wholly and verbally God-given, Scripture is without error or fault in all its teaching, ... about the events of world history. "