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Originally Posted by wolfgang  He got killed for being blasphemous in the view of the Jews, right? Which was to say he was the son of God - which was what the Jews should have seen in their own religion anyway but they didn't see that and called Jesus out as being against their views. |
That's what the bible states, but I'm skeptical about this and here's why:
Crucifixion is traditionally used by the Roman empire to condemn slaves, particularly hated criminals and traitors to death. For blasphemy they usually followed the local traditions, since the Roman empire was fairly tolerant of other religions (as long as such believers didn't challenge the divinity of the emperor, which early christians did, leading to their persecution). According to the thora (old testament) blasphemers should've been stoned to death.
Yet Jesus wasn't stoned to death, while blaspheming is said to be the reason for his demise, yet he did not get the usual capitol punishment for blaspheming, so something is odd here...