RE: Shit. What The Hell. Jesus Never Existed
August 13, 2015 at 4:12 am
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2015 at 4:13 am by robvalue.)
The question for me is what was in the mind of the gospel authors? If it was a human, clearly they didn't know which human in particular as they had no frame of reference outside of gossip. If it was the result of a celestial myth crafted into a human, were they the ones who created this transition? Or had it already happened, and they just picked up on the gossip that resulted?
It could be a combination of both, when whoever it was decided to humanise the celestial myth, they could have roughly based it on an actual person (or the oral accounts of that person) to try and make it more believable.
To me, this is the big question. Trying to randomly find people who fit the profile is kind of irrelevant, in my opinion, because that doesn't tell us what they were really playing at. Clearly they were in the business of making shit up, that's obvious from the fantastical details they include. I think it's a fair estimate that their goal was spreading a religious agenda, but what process did they go through?
Sadly, I think it's impossible we can ever know for sure, we can only take a best guess based on what little information we have. I know for sure, obviously, because I'm special and I'm Jesus. But no one else will know, unless they find out my secret Jesus identity. And that's not likely to happen. I've kept it quiet this long that I'm Jesus.
It could be a combination of both, when whoever it was decided to humanise the celestial myth, they could have roughly based it on an actual person (or the oral accounts of that person) to try and make it more believable.
To me, this is the big question. Trying to randomly find people who fit the profile is kind of irrelevant, in my opinion, because that doesn't tell us what they were really playing at. Clearly they were in the business of making shit up, that's obvious from the fantastical details they include. I think it's a fair estimate that their goal was spreading a religious agenda, but what process did they go through?
Sadly, I think it's impossible we can ever know for sure, we can only take a best guess based on what little information we have. I know for sure, obviously, because I'm special and I'm Jesus. But no one else will know, unless they find out my secret Jesus identity. And that's not likely to happen. I've kept it quiet this long that I'm Jesus.
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