The Maschiah
Quite informative scholarly video in French with English subs available.
■ The Jewish Maschiah — The Anointed One — is an Earthly King, an Earthly Emperor or a High Priest officiating on Earth, not the Christian concept of the Messiah/Christos/Christ.
■ And the Jewish Maschiah is not Jesus of Nazareth, a philosophical man having clearly said that his Kingdom is not of this World.
The Jews clearly and adamantly rejected the idea that Jesus of Nazareth might be the Maschiah and see him as a false prophet having led people astray. In the imagination of the Jews as recorded in the Talmud, Jesus of Nazareth is being punished for eternity by being tortured in a cauldron of boiling feces.
The Jews are still waiting for the Maschiah — the Anointed One — their Earthly King.
■ Jesus was elevated after his death or after his physical disappearance from History by Saul of Tarsus aka Paul (5 bce- 64/65 ce) for allowing HIS MADE UP FICTIONAL IMAGE AS A DIVINITY (by Paul precisely), then having enough majesty and not only as a mere mortal teacher of wisdom, for rivalizing with Jupiter and with the many other major deities of the culturally quite rich Mediterranean World politically unified at the time by the Roman Empire.
Almost three centuries have passed, the followers of the pauline theology were then numerous within the Roman Empire and the Jesus elevated as the Second Person of the Christian Trinity was officially established into THE NICENE CREED by a vote of the bishops having being summoned by the Emperor Constantine the Great (born in 272/ruled from 306 to his death in 337) to an imperial ecumenical (meaning from all the inhabited lands of the Roman Empire) Council in 325 at Nicea precisely for the making of a new official religion, the Nicene Creed, for the Roman Empire replacing the worn out Jupiter of older times.
■■ There are many historical reasons advanced for the successful expansion of Christianity in the time span of almost 3 centuries between Paul’s life (5 bce-64/65 ce) and the imperial ecumenical Council at Nicea having happened in year 325.
The 3 major reasons that I want to adumbrate are :
I● Paul was quite smart for having identified A SCALABLE STRATEGY using the foundational common MYSTERIES CULTS matrix (Mysteries is from the Greek word mustes or mystes which means the initiated one) under different INITIATION RITUALS but resorting to the same quite fundamental symbolism across the Mediiterranean World of the time.
The institution of the EUCHARIST as the central ritual in Christianity allowed the different populations of the Roman Empire of the time to EASILY FEEL A SPONTANEOUS BELONGING to the new faith because RE-ENACTING A PERVASIVE FAMILIAR RITUAL already present in the Mediterranean basin World for centuries more probably for millennia at the time of Paul : PARTICIPATING TO THE DIVINE DIMENSION BY ABSORBING PHYSICALLY THE REAL SUBSTANCE, THE REAL BEING OF THE ELECTED DEITY by a ritual belonging to the matrix of the Mysteries Cults and thus ACTUALLY and most intimately in communion with THE DIVINE. And that’s exactly the Eucharist ritual.
BY THE *MYSTERY OF TRANSSUBSTANTIATION, the WINE is the true divine blood of the deity and the BREAD is the true flesh of the deity operating a magical, mysterious — MYSTERIES CULTS precisely from the Greek mustes or mystes which means the initiated one, into the cosmic arcanes — transformation in the believer, in the initiated one in Communion with the deity. Communion is another name for the Eucharist ritual.
II● Moreover, the main branch having transmitted Jesus’ teachings at the time of Paul, the Jerusalem authority directed by Jesus’ brother James the Just (died in 62 ce), was either not skillful enough or purer not backing down on religious principles and DID NOT COMPROMISE on the Mosaic Laws ABSOLUTELY demanding physical CIRCUMCISION and the JEWISH DIETARY PRESCRIPTIONS so not at all successful CONTRARY TO PAUL who dismissed the dietary prescriptions and declared that only “the circumcision of the heart by the Spirit” matters ( Romans 2:29).
III● The first converts to Christianity were slaves and low classes people that Paul advised QUITE WELL.