RE: Plagiarism in the NT
August 1, 2017 at 1:51 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2017 at 2:04 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 1, 2017 at 10:50 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Thanks for that bit of information. It seems to me that it makes the 'Jesus was in a deep coma from which he awoke' hypothesis more plausible: no need to bribe guards to get Jesus off the cross as quickly as possible, once he appeared to be dead and passed the 'spear-poke test', they could take him down.
Plausible in the sense that once you've already bought the implausible one might find the need to refer to comas on the cross....which is a fairly creative use of the term plausibility. Supposing, for the sake of discusion, that there -was- a jesus..you aren;t getting any details of his life from the gospels. You're getting theology and ritual symbolism. Referring to them for the details is like referring to myths about pixies as a treatise on gardening.
This isn;t even lost on the faithful, though their faith blindsides them to it. You will not find, in the gospels..the story of that one time jesus stubbed his toe, or took a particularly solid shit. He doesn't call in sick on a monday or make idle conversation. All that is "recorded" is steeped in doctrinal authority. If there ever were a jesus...and I don't think there was, the success of the jesus myth is -precisely- why any knowledge of that person has been eradicated. The same is and was true of paul bunyan, almost certainly based on at least one person if not a racial stereotype of a group of people....but you'll learn nothing about any of them by referring to the stories. You are, above, looking for plausibility in his big blue ox. Maybe it was just abnormally large and covered in azurite chalk?
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