RE: OK, Christians! I have my KJV!
March 27, 2018 at 5:00 pm
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2018 at 5:02 pm by Jehanne.)
(March 27, 2018 at 2:12 pm)Drich Wrote: If this is truly your question then know your mind heart have grown so cold to the truth you do not care what truth is you simply want to follow what you think is right.
I believe that Jesus was a Jewish apocalyptic prophet who was born and raised in northern Galilee. As a child, Jesus probably suffered from some sort of neurological disorder, but he became a charismatic preacher who developed a small following with his belief that the "Son of Man" (an angelic being) would come down (Jesus believed in a flat Earth, as did his contemporaries, Paul included) from Heaven to deliver the Jewish people from the Romans. After a year or two of preaching, some of Jesus' followers convinced him to take his message south to Jerusalem; after arriving, Jesus found his way to the Temple, and there was an altercation between Jesus and the Jewish establishment. The Romans intervened almost immediately, and Jesus was arrested and taken into Roman custody. A short time later he was interrogated by a Roman official (he and Pilate probably never even met), and Jesus was found to be eccentric and given to flights of apocalyptic imagination and statements. The Roman authorities, as they did often, consulted with the local Jewish authorities, and it was soon thereafter determined that Jesus needed to be put down. Pilate gave the order, and Jesus was publicly executed by crucifixion. After his death, his body was taken down, tossed into a nearby pit, where it was consumed by ravenous dogs.
Heartbroken, some of Jesus' followers began to have visions of the "risen" Christ, and stories began to be circulated about his teachings and life, which were retold, redacted, and eventually, began to be written down in some 40 different "gospels" a generation to two after Jesus' death. Paul, an epileptic, also began to have visions of Jesus, and he, as with Jesus, had some neurological issues, which led him to go off the religious deep-end. Eventually, the new religion began to form itself, from the bottom-up, and with embellishment after embellishment, the new religion began to remake Jesus and his teachings in its own image.