The Roman Church made it illegal from the mid - 4th century onwards for Romaniotes — Kione Greek speakers, a remnant that exists today after the Holocaust — to teach anything about Him, leading to the phrase “those who know don't say, those who say don’t know” among Jewish Gnostics, who differed from the standard label of serpent worshippers whose texts were plenty in the first centuries.
After the first centuries, only Toshav Groups (proselytes), who the Roman Church also threatened, continued to look to such Yidi (Gnostic Kabbalist Jews) for guidance on the issue of Jesus of Nazareth, besides the 27 1st C Romaniote-language texts on his life and doctrine known as the New Testament, a Hebrew record also exists of his biography and teachings known as Hebrew Matityahu (Gospel of Matthew). Notwithstanding various ‘church fathers’ whose works were not authoritive, yet opinions and ones that various historians wrote more as theologies than accurate histories. The same could be said of the emerging Jewish Rabbinical reactions, except one.
The only narrative, yet obscure, surviving into the present, are a handful of oblique references to him as Yeshua Sar HaPhanim (Jesus or Salvation, the Prince of the Presence) in the Mishnah and understood in Jewish Machzorim (prayer books). Such a record stands decisive, more than ambiguous references claimed in the Babylonian Talmud that fuel today’s anti-semitism transfered into the Caliphate of Abbasid Islam, the creators of SIN (The Standard Islamic Narrative).
The consisent Jewish narrative taps into his legally paternal Grandfather was called Jacob Pantera according to Epiphanius quoting Origen (who might have been confused by Celsus). His disciples were sent to deal with the followers of his step-nephew Plony Yeshu HaNotzri Ben Stada (son of his disciple Miriam Magdala and his step-brother Joses Pantera) during the reign of the House of Adiabene.
Hence, Rebbe Yehoshua Minzaret is not to be confused with his step-nephew Plony Yeshu HaNotzri Ben Stada, who has been written about with respect by various Karaites (textual Torah only Jews, like the Saducees) who opposed the disciples and apostles. These elements or character descriptions find a home in the Babylonian Talmud but not in the Jerusalem Talmud which came first. The massive Babylonian Talmud is not a monolithic document with its variety of opinions and typtically used to perpetuate confusion. Plus Jesus of Nazareth is not found there except the acronym Yemach-shmou YE-SHU and as a diminutive.
Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically. Jesus was a Galilean Jew who went through Tevilah under the supervision of John the Baptist and began his ministry. This other ‘Jesus’ shows up as part of his family and the son of Mary of Magdala. You see the conflations today that give fuel to fantasy novels like Dan Brown’s The Davinci Code?
His teachings were initially conserved by oral transmission, and he was often referred to as Rabbi, a title he forbid of other teachers. Jesus debated with fellow Jews on how to best follow God, engaged in healing, taught in parables, and gathered followers. He was arrested and tried by the Beit Shammai Sanhedrin, turned over to the Roman government, and crucified on the order of Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect of Jerusalem. After his death, his followers witnessed and believed he rose from the dead. They formed out of the community and from various early church groups that eventually emerged.
The Historical and the Spiritual Jesus is Salvation
Jesus as the Second Adam: The Adamic lineage in Jesus' genealogy in Luke starts in Genesis 6 as the Sons of God resulting in a spiritually recreated seed. Jesus is teaching us we must be born again spiritually. John 3:13-17 contains the Bible's most preached verse, John 3:16. However, most totally miss the context: the son of THE MAN who comes down from heaven; thus, he is not there in heaven when Jesus speaks to Nicodemus.
The HaAdam of the Celestial Garden and the Earthly Reality: HaAdam brought Guilt, Shame, Fear, and Anxiety into the human race. The fall was both spiritual and dimensional. Within successive cultural groups and empirically verifiable today, one of the four takes a prominent role, not excluding the others as human emotions, at least on an individual level. Still, one of these negative emotions becomes the so-called ‘flagship’ of cultural DNA, collectively.
On the flip side, another reaction manifests within the human action, as presented here: Guilt/ Innocence, Shame/ Honor, Fear/ Power. Then there is Anxiety, the former Guilt has an ominous psychological manifestation or better expressed as the logical destination of the Western Guilt/ Innocence trajectory.
Still, collectively, Shame/Honor cultures are significant and complex mentalities that are often mixed with the Fear/Power noted in tribal cultures. Religion, in a tribal sense is a dead end, for let the nations be glad! Jesus’ Great Commission transcends national exclusivity rampant today.
However, the second Adam Kadmon, the primal one — who restores the fallen image ‘is the Adam within Jesus of Nazareth’s Spiritual lineage’ stated by Luke, not HaAdam — emerges as salvation. First for our individual helpless state and for our collective repentence and cooperation. Illustrated in the past and needed today.
Matthew records His Davidic root, providing us our spiritual state and purpose as children of light in our identification with HIM. — To all those who believe and trust Him—a spiritual narrative of the Holy of One of Israel and the main thread of the 66 books, redemption for a purpose! How this has collectively corrupted the Abrahamic Faiths demands we observe and return to the onset of the Hebrew Calendar with the Adam of Luke.
Thus, Genesis 4:25 does not discuss HaAdam, nor his wife Havah (Eve); instead, sets the stage for the Sons of God and their mission to marry the daughters of Cain in godliness and increase in righteousness to fill the earth. (Where do you think Islam gets such a missionary marriage concept?)
Furthermore, Genesis 6, mentioning the Nephalim, misses the fact that they were already on earth. The human—angel hybrid interpretation is plain fantasy. Demons and fallen angels existed way before that time. Being Nephil is a state of jealousy and coveteousness with the stuff and era of this world. Obviously, such wickedness won out, for Noah was the only ‘son of God’ left as righteouss.
The Bible is one revelation, thus Christianity and Islam have a truncated framing because of their misunderstanding of true Judaism (Jew means a people of praise) and the One (Jesus of Nazareth) who fulfilled the Torah. Noah’s spiritual seed as family seed prevailed. Remember Shem was named after Someone! Think HaShem! So the ‘way of the Land’ another way to describe the concept of Noahide Laws (Acts 15 & Sura 42, Augustine in Contra Faustum) was brought back by righteous Abraham.
As an apostate of the Eber family, Abraham was called away again from their pagan ways. Today all Abrahmic Faiths have ended up far away (to one degree or another) as obstinate religions within their interpretations, rather than proselyte/ pilgrim faiths grafted into a growing ‘cultivated olive tree’ based upon Jesus Christ revealed in the NT and (Romans 11) as chapters 3-8 reveal his spiritual power through His Lordship for our individual lives which Abraham typified.
Five thousand eight hundred years ago, God’s special revelation began after a general revelation, in which the wrath of God fell upon HaAdam and continues as Paul states in (Romans 1). The Bible and following the New Testament takes us out of this fallen world into the spiritual, not to be conformed to this evil age (Romans 12) to prepare for a greater age to come.
See the Reason for the Bible (Romans 9-11) Jesus of Nazareth, the eternal son, is the restoration of the spiritual image that we must express! —and Christendom (nationalistic appropriations) and Islam proclaim elements, yet distorted information from His historical place as exemplfied by the historic Abrahamic religion’s militant nature. The ‘cultivated olive tree’ requires branches from all peoples! Only Jesus of Nazareth and His Gospel for the nations makes sense to bring the glory of the Lord to all nations through peace with one another.
Again, this 2nd Adam father of Seth is not the same as the HaAdam father of Cain and Abel. For he is not called HaAdam in the original Hebrew which is found in certain Midrashim. (Correct Jewish non-Zoharist Interpretations). Why did the LORD put a mark on Cain and protect him? Do not avenge evil or murder with murder! Open your mind in reading the text.
Back to the solution, the Son of Man! Strong’s Concordance # 5750 ‘O-wd’ translated ‘again’ skews the meaning as the word may also be translated ‘moreover’ or ‘furthermore’. Remember Bible translations are really interpretations. Use an interlinear and lexicon and work with the original languages.
Another question? Who was the woman? So notice, the verse is written from a heavenly perspective, and a way of contextualizing Genesis 3:15 (the proto-evangelion) and keeping the importance of the seed of the women and its iterations until the ultimate manifestation in Jesus Christ (Hebrews 1). Not negating its prophetic destination in Jesus of Nazareth as we must understand that the previous OT theophanies are evidence of who was to guide God’s people. But Israel wanted a King like the other nations (1 Samuel 8); a watershed section of scripture as no other.
Therefore the point is clarified from the teaching of the second Adam used by Paul for Jesus of Nazareth in (Romans 5) and (I Corinthians 15), and also found in the 1st century Alexandrian Jewish sage, Philo. A new creation obedient to God and his succesive lineage. This is our union with Him, as it was in the day of Noah; believe and follow the Lord Jesus Christ, not the negativity of HaAdam Sin nature.
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The Eternal Son, Adam Kadmon (primal),
The Second Adam, Jesus of Nazareth
