(02-21-2019, 01:11 PM)Channalee Wrote: The difference with Jesus is that his followers back then and today believe that Jesus rose from the dead, was the son of God, and fulfilled all the requirements to be considered the Messiah. Christians not only continue to view Jesus as the Messiah, they worship him as being a one-third part of God and/or the son of God.
I just wanted to say that that very last part--specifically that portion about the Trinity--would not have been part of the beliefs of the first Christians. The teaching of the Trinity isn't something that developed until way later.
The reason why we know this is because the Jewish communities that believed that Jesus was the Messiah wrote Gospels that denied the divinity of Jesus. There's a group called the Ebionites who are an early Christian group that had views that were part of that whole milieu. Here's a link to wikipedia, if anybody's interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebionites
And just as a brief aside (pay no real attention to this because this is just a side thing), we Catholics don't really believe that Jesus is one-third part of G-d. The Trinity is probably the strangest doctrines we have and even Christians don't really understand it. But yeah, in spite of the way the doctrine of the Trinity sounds , we do actually believe that HaShem is integrated--that He is ONE--and that He is indivisible.