You're not required to believe.
...and I don't. Ya know why?...because the little that you've said is complete bs.
You've furnished no proof that there is any reason to believe that "Jesus" is mentioned in the OT, which is understandable because he wasn't. Remember - the burden is on you to make positive proofs, not for me to catalogue each time he is not mentioned, which would mean reproducing the entire text.
followed the Torah AND the Law
LoLz - you know that is untrue. He followed a higher law. ..and broke the Jewish law quite flagrantly on occasions when it got in the way.
Maybe for a Jew, but when Jesus said I am the way, he meant that the allegorical life which you read of in the gospels is the way. Not he himself, but the path of initiation which it describes. Try to bear in mind that the gospels aren't historical records of actual events (which is why the synoptic gospels often do not jibe - because those story details don't matter) - that's why there is no trace of Jesus other than forgeries and people grasping at straws. They are simply the outer teachings of certain schools in that time and place. If you quit being a literalist you might actually learn something.
Do not fuck with the Holliday on yer Theology.
. Just once I'd like one of these yahooz to say something vaguely intriguing or insightful, or that isn't widely know that is also true, and on any subject really.
..anyway, wanna bet loctardo comes back with some nonsense about Isaiah 53.
I already know all the nonsense, which is how I know it's nonsense.
Isaiah 53
New International Version
53 Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
4 Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8 By oppression[
] and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.[
]
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes[
] his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
11 After he has suffered,
he will see the light of life[
] and be satisfied[
];
by his knowledge[
] my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[
]
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,[
]
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.