RE: Which Jesus is real?
July 29, 2017 at 8:30 pm
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2017 at 8:33 pm by Brian37.)
There has to have been a man or more likely a group of people tired of the old ways otherwise Christianity would not exist at all. What never happened was a baby being born with super powers or a human being being tortured to death and magically surviving as the bible would have the reader believe.
Christianity got started for the same reason every new religion gets created. Humans get upset with the old ways, incorporate the parts they like, write stories about that, vilify the old parts they don't like. Market it with a new hero and sell it.
Buddhism started the same way. Whomever started it was simply tired of the old Hindu ways and tried to make it more earthy and purpose driven. Buddhism started in close proximity to India, just like Jews were in close proximity to their prior Canaanites where the Yahweh name they stole the character from. Christianity splintered from the Jews and Muslims splintered from both.
But yea, if you look at the depictions of what Jesus looked like by Italy in one period vs what Mexicans think what he looks like now vs what white Americans think it seems to reflect the attributes of the believer of that location and time.
But even Buddha looks different depending on the geography of Asia's history and location.
Christianity got started for the same reason every new religion gets created. Humans get upset with the old ways, incorporate the parts they like, write stories about that, vilify the old parts they don't like. Market it with a new hero and sell it.
Buddhism started the same way. Whomever started it was simply tired of the old Hindu ways and tried to make it more earthy and purpose driven. Buddhism started in close proximity to India, just like Jews were in close proximity to their prior Canaanites where the Yahweh name they stole the character from. Christianity splintered from the Jews and Muslims splintered from both.
But yea, if you look at the depictions of what Jesus looked like by Italy in one period vs what Mexicans think what he looks like now vs what white Americans think it seems to reflect the attributes of the believer of that location and time.
But even Buddha looks different depending on the geography of Asia's history and location.
