(September 28, 2015 at 6:53 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote:(September 28, 2015 at 6:13 am)houseofcantor Wrote: There was no historical Jesus. Paul's letter to the Romans told me so. Not like it matters, anyway.He probably existed, or perhaps better to say, there was a man who was an inspiration for the character, though whoever that man was has been totally obscured.
I imagine that he was just some doomsday prophet, the Galilean equivalent of a crazy hobo who stands in the street wearing a "The End is Nigh" sandwich board.
Paul's construct was an idealized human crafted as a relatable embodiment of Holy Spirit. "Crazy hobo guy" failed the messiah test. It's pretty obvious that the Jesus of Christianity is the first.
