RE: For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus
February 22, 2013 at 11:50 am
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2013 at 11:51 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 22, 2013 at 2:06 am)Justtristo Wrote: Your argument sounds quite plausible, however as I read the Pauline Epistltes and the Epistle to the Hebrews, it is clear they portray a Jesus who lived and died in the heavenly realms.
Which isn't as easy to relate to or spin a narrative about as a living breathing buddy jesus in the here and then. Some narrative structures are successful and the stories wrapped around them survive, some are not and they eventually stop being told. I wouldn't keep telling a story about a heavenly jesus and his magical realm for very long myself. Not alot of those heavenly realm stories are still making their way to any best seller list, know what I mean? Whens the last time you saw any anthology of myth top the charts? Is it really surprising that whatever the jesus narrative was once it's become what it is today? Especially in the light of how the rest of our fiction trended in the same time?
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