Spotlite
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That is the crux of the matter though, isn't it Bullet? “about what Jesus may or may not have believed being raised Jewish in those times”.
As far as writing / documentary - all we know and can know about Jesus is written in the New Testament. Everything written about him certainly indicated he believed and taught in a heaven, a place of eternal rest with the Father and, a place of eternal fire in some form.
I’m not sure what Erhman could possibly have other than assuming what Jesus thought / believed outside of what’s actually recorded as Jesus saying in the Bible. Without the Bible, we wouldn’t even know about Jesus. I mean he was missing from 12 to 30, no one wrote anything about him. Not much written prior to 12 after birth. Certainly not enough written anywhere to conclude that he thought opposite of what is written - without assumptions. Jews rejecting Jesus tells me he wasn’t all that “Jewishy” for them.
Just my opinion. And Jews today aren’t rejecting him for his heaven / hot place beliefs, they’re saying he isn’t the Messiah.