Did Jesus ever attend a church? (serious question)

[Joe the Liberal]

did he? I've always been curious about that for some reason.

[salvorhardin]

1. Assuming there was a literal historical Jesus

Then he likely had a standard Jewish upbringing for that time and spent a lot of time in synagogues.

[NMMNG]

2. According to Luke 13:10

Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. Matthew 4:23 says he went through Galilee teaching in their synagogues. He probably went to synagogue as a child to learn (assuming he was a real, historical figure). Of course he would never have been in a "church" because the church didn't spring up until after his death.

[Joe the Liberal]

3. Interesting.....

assuming he was real and all.

[Warpy]

7. There was only one Temple and that was in Jerusalem

There weren't any neighborhood synagogues in the towns of the time. A minyan would meet in a home to discuss scripture. Trips to Jerusalem to visit the temple were a big deal, a massive pilgramage that involved animal sacrifice with all the trimmings when you got there.

The only local temples were Roman temples to their various emperors and/or gods and I doubt he ever went to one of those except maybe to gawk.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. No, there were synagogues by that time:

The synagogue was a revolutionary institution from its inception, embodying dramatic religious and social changes. It appears to have been a uniquely Jewish creation that influenced the subsequent development of the Christian church and the Muslim mosque. As its Greek name - synagogue - "place of assembly" - attests, it functioned as a community center, housing the activities of school, court, hostel, charity fund, and meeting place for the local Jewish community. In Second Temple and later sources, the word synagogue often refers to a congregation and not to a building. The early synagogues of the Galilee were the first buildings representing monotheistic space where people worshipped without idols. They were also the initial prototypes where Jesus prayed. The remains of as many as 50 different synagogues were identified in the Galilee, one of the most concentrated sites for synagogues in the world at that time. These early synagogues included Meron, Gush Halav, Navorin, Bar Am and Bet Alfa and Korazim, and Capernaum by the Sea of Galilee. The earliest synagogue remains in Palestine date to the late first century BCE. or by the early first century CE. By this time the synagogue was a developed central institution throughout the Jewish world. From the fourth to seventh centuries there is evidence of scores of synagogue being built throughout the country. At times these archaeological remains confirm the written sources. The bulk of synagogue remains comes from the Galilee, which was the center of Jewish life in late antiquity (from the Late Roman or Byzantine period to the beginning of the Arab period).

http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1470/

[laconicsax]

4. I'm sure there are plenty of people named Jesus who attend church.

Could you be more specific?

[yellerpup]

5. Jesus of the Bible was referred to as rabbi.

Only married men were rabbis during the time period he was supposedly walking the earth. I have read speculation that the marriage in Canna was his own, because according to the custom of the time it was his responsibility to provide the wine. His mom, Mary, fretted over the lack of wine until he did his magic thing and provided it for that wedding. Church, no such thing, but synagogue--no doubt.

[Warpy]

8. Yes, the title has always indicated to me that he'd been married

and I've always wondered if that's what started his preaching life, the death of his wife and kid(s) during one of the frequent plagues that swept through the area.

That's if he existed as an historical figure, at all.

The official version of the myth adopted by the Nicean Council never made any sense, at all.

[yellerpup]

9. The Nicean Council must have been made up of Repugs

and fabulists. Interesting thought about the plagues wiping out his family, tho. If, as you say, he existed at all.

[semillama]

11. I prefer the Gospel According to Biff:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb:_The_Gospel_According_to_Biff,_Christ%27s_Childhood_Pal

[FiveGoodMen]

12. Really one of the best of Moore's books

And I like them all.

[yellerpup]

13. Too funny.

I've always loved the name Biff for it's comedic quality. What a gawd!

[pink-o]

6. He was probably bar mitzvah-ed

and that has to happen in a temple.

The party afterwards, where you try to make your neighbors jealous cuz you have better shit than they do, I don't know if that actually happened!

:evilgrin:

[Deep13]

10. He was Jewish.

Assuming he lived at all, he was born and died a Jew.