RE: Josephus and other contemporaries on Jesus
July 12, 2018 at 10:49 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2018 at 10:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The "traditional christian view" is that the parable so closely dovetails with mythology that it proves hes god...that its twoo..twoo...twoo.
Understand, however, that this view is actually agreeing with a mythicist reading of the text - and then adding their silly beliefs as sauce. You believe in the myths. That doesn;t mean that they arent mythological. You simply resent their accurate classification as you feel that it endangers those beliefs. Not all christians are handicapped in this way. I;m not a believer, so I dont have those hangups..and see one of the best stories about the christian god in the whole of the NT, realizing that it doesn;t have to be an ap news report from the gallilean front. Thats not important to the faith...or to the narrative itself.
No more important than there actually being a man upon which all of this was based, or an event..because the story is about god and what he can and will do..not a man and what he did.
Understand, however, that this view is actually agreeing with a mythicist reading of the text - and then adding their silly beliefs as sauce. You believe in the myths. That doesn;t mean that they arent mythological. You simply resent their accurate classification as you feel that it endangers those beliefs. Not all christians are handicapped in this way. I;m not a believer, so I dont have those hangups..and see one of the best stories about the christian god in the whole of the NT, realizing that it doesn;t have to be an ap news report from the gallilean front. Thats not important to the faith...or to the narrative itself.
No more important than there actually being a man upon which all of this was based, or an event..because the story is about god and what he can and will do..not a man and what he did.
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