Would Jesus have approved of the Holocaust?

[minionofmidas]

re Bono - maybe. But Jesus wouldn't have agreed in his lifetime if you put that notion to him, and this was about "What would Jesus do?"

[minionofmidas]

re Bono - maybe. But Jesus wouldn't have agreed in his lifetime if you put that notion to him, and this was about "What would Jesus do?"

Jesus is a part of the Trinity--so He is God. God inspired Paul to write his Letter to the Romans where that was explicitated. So yes, JEsus would have and does agree.

If so, Jesus was pretty duplicitous during his thirty years though. He certainly wouldn't have let on anything about a notion such as this.

[minionofmidas]

The very last thing you want to be in an Old Testament tale is the first born.

But weren't Enoch (taken directly into heaven without experiencing death), Noah (the only righteous man found on earth), Abraham (the father of the faithful and the recipient of God's inheritance), and Jesus (Son of God) all the first born?

Didn't Jesus have four older brothers and an undefined number of sisters?

[minionofmidas]

The very last thing you want to be in an Old Testament tale is the first born.

But weren't Enoch (taken directly into heaven without experiencing death), Noah (the only righteous man found on earth), Abraham (the father of the faithful and the recipient of God's inheritance), and Jesus (Son of God) all the first born?

Didn't Jesus have four older brothers and an undefined number of sisters?

Given that Jesus was born to a young and unmarried virgin, having four older brothers seems a bit unlikely.  He did have a younger brother, though, James, and possibly other unnamed brothers.

No, they're explicitly named. I think in Mark, might be wrong. Not sure if they're all older, but James is addressed as his older brother... somewhere. The "virgin" is of course due to an error in the translation.