form the child. john dominic crossing believes the motives were nots document of jesus life and worw as history but to make him ake meaningful in the world of competing theology.. when matthew is going to have jesus give his sermon on the mount he s going to model him on moses even as he is being born, so as moses is almost killed by the evil pharaoh, jesus is going to be almost killed by the evil herod. the number one message from roman imperial theology was that the emperor was divine, and that the emperor had a divine life to rule. note of the ses symbols caesar used throughout his empire and how they were seized by the new christian religion. after julius caesar died, halley s comet flew over the skies in rome and his adopted s son augustus proclaimed that iss in fact, my father, julius cae