Quote:At that time Jesus was not "divine", that came later.
That's not the story as "they" tell it. Granted the whole brew had to ferment for a couple of centuries but the winners were the ones who claimed both fully human and fully divine.....absurd and contradictory though that may be.
Glad you mentioned Schneerson, though. I was in Brooklyn the day he died and I said to my colleague (Jewish) "maybe we should duck out of this meeting and head home in case he comes back?"
He laughed.
Again, the concept of a dying/resurrected god was commonplace in the region. Of course there were differences in all the stories but it would not have been considered something revolutionary.