Have Christians forgotten that Christianity came from ISRAEL?

“The oldest surviving complete text of the New Testament is the Codex Sinaiticus, dating back to the middle of the fourth century. The oldest fragments, the Bodmer and Beatty Papyri and Papyrus 52, date back to the second century but only contain bits of the Gospel of John. All of these texts are Greek.

Jesus's native tongue was Aramaic, and even if he knew Greek, he certainly did not speak it to his apostles, many of whom were uneducated fishermen. Without any surviving Aramaic texts, the actual words of Christ are lost forever, mired in a sea of subjective translation by ancient scribes.

There are three hundred years between the composition of a text and our surviving copies. In a world without a printing press, texts would often undergo drastic evolution through centuries of handwritten duplication.

Our four canonical gospels did not begin their lives as the gospels of "Matthew," "Mark," "Luke" and "John." Different groups of early Christians maintained their own oral traditions of Jesus's wisdom, as writing was a specialized skill and not every fellowship enjoyed the services of a scribe. When written accounts of Jesus's teachings began to circulate (i.e., the theoretical "sayings" gospel Q and the Semeia or Signs source), the independent groups WOULD SUPPLEMENT THEM WITH THEIR OWN TRADITIONS about the savior, each believing their own versions to be "the Gospel." Eventually, as these expanded writings spread through other communities, some versions were viewed as having more authority than others. It was not until the pronouncement of Bishop Irenus (185 C.E.) that Christians began to accept only the four familiar gospels as authoritative, and to refer to them by their modern titles.

The rest of the canon was much slower to develop. For the next two centuries, the four gospels would be coupled with a myriad of different letters, epistles, stories and apocalypses, according to what a particular congregation JUDGED AS RELEVANT TO THEIR UNDERSTANDING of Jesus Christ and his message. Catholicism was only one of the dozens of "denominations" within the early church—Gnosticism was prevalent throughout Egypt, Montanism in Asia Minor, Marcionism in Syria.

Eventually, the Catholic church was adopted as the state religion of the Roman Empire, and all other systems of belief were branded as heresies. Following the Epistle of Athanasius in 367 C.E., the Church finally reached agreement upon which writings were truly authentic and representative of apostolic tradition, thus forming what we know today as the canonical New Testament. Although factions of the Church continued to debate the merits of various books for centuries, and many even used other writings in their liturgy, most uncanonical writings were ordered to be destroyed. In many cases, possession of heretical literature was punishable by death.”

Lol! Your question is kind of funny. You start by talking about Israel (which most Christians support) and then switch to Arabic people. Islamic countries hate Israel so most Christians don't like them too much.

You must mean the middle Americans. And some whites in other places of the country. They have no sense, they ignore the teachings of God, himself. They pay attention only to that which pleases them. And those old paintings of a white Jesus, they love that. I have no real answer to your question, because I really don't know. But it's really just racism. Which I would describe as "stupidity at it's best."

Yes, he was a brown man from the Middle-East - but not Israel - it did not exist them. More likely Jordan.

Mo

Atheist

>Yes, he was a brown man from the Middle-East - but not Israel - it did not exist them. More likely Jordan.

Joseph was Judean. So it's safe to assume junior was too.

Some Christianity does...but the majority of Xian sects are distorted and come from the Roman Catholic Church, which started from Romans intermingling with Europeans.

The modern day Israelites werent the same as they were back in jesus days they've been enslaved and moved around so much so whose to say he looked like a typical arab from the sounds of it he'd look like Ethiopians because he came from the line of king david and king david always expressed that he had black skin but I don't understand why people don't like arabs their cool as hell but just like any person in the world if you cross them then they'll get revenge.

Jesus said, "you will know them by their fruits (Matthew 7:15-20). Perhaps these "White Christians" aren't Christian at all.

We're a bit distrustful of Arabic types since the Muslims started bombing everyone....

Other than that, no problems.

IT's just that sometimes people who have a hard time missing in public resort to going on the internet to "express" themselves.