Looking Past the Corruption to See the Truth in Biblical Faith

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Jul 15, 2021 at 13:45

Nine years ago, Reader Kepha Hor postulated on the corruptions in the observance of Biblical precepts, doing so to highlight that belief in the Jewish Messiah is badly maligned from the perspective of those who must take a derogatory approach to Biblical Christianity in order to salve a burning conscience and justify a self indulgent incitement to live life with such conscience, which is seen now in this post epidemic age of anarchistic ravaging and belittlement of good moral structure; it is a demon's playground in many places where followers of Jesus are told to shut up their doors and mouths.
That other religious endeavors appear to be least challenged in the same way (most notably fundamentalist Islam) may help to explain the other post where Christianity appears to be on an increased movement away from the ruling Mullahs in spite of the admonishments of censure or death.
Interestingly, Dr. Pipes then poses his own query with a postulation:

How does one distinguish the "real" from the "fictitious" Jesus?

Do note my book review at http://www.danielpipes.org/57/the-muslim-jesus-sayings-and-stories-in-islamic-literature, where I quote Tarif Khalidi: "In his Muslim habitat, Jesus becomes an object of intense devotion, reverence, and love."

Therein lays yet another conundrum: if the historical Yeshua, Jesus, for nearly two millennia has been characterized as everything but Who He really is (especially by the wrong assumption of being Muslim, which can never, never be fully believed based upon the true Biblical evidence), how then is He still misunderstood by people except they deny Who He really is? Like the Pharisees, everyone who is skeptical is going to get it wrong and will never be allowed to see the truth except in belief.
It was the main obstacle to belief then; it is still the main obstacle to faith today.

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