<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yes that is also what I have gathered from my readings on this topic.<br><div><div>On 6 Feb 2012, at 19:14, BillK wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">But, considering his background as a Jewish rabbi, even a radical<br>rabbi, it seems obvious to me that Jesus would have no time for all<br>the Greek theology that Paul preached to his Greek audience. Jesus<br>preached in Aramaic to a Jewish audience and was much more<br>'down-to-earth' than Pauline theology. The gospels were written in<br>Greek, for a Greco / Roman audience after Jerusalem was destroyed by<br>the Romans in 70 AD and the Jewish followers of Yeshua scattered.<br><br>So, for what it's worth, my opinion is that there was a popular Jewish<br>rabbi / rebel leader called Yeshua, but little of what he taught his<br>Jewish followers can be found in the New Testament writings.<br></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>