RE: Did Jesus decompose?
March 10, 2019 at 11:35 am
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2019 at 12:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
-which then, by fiat of christian belief, means that god can be tempted. The necessary corruptibility of christ as a fitting sacrifice is equally shared by the godhead. It was for this very implication that the contingent of proto-christian believers who insisted that jesus was not a man at all were clutching their daggers.
Not only was the notion of god incarnate heretical to the putative source material, the insistence on gods humanity brought with it the frailties of human beings.
We could go around in circles about this forever, though, because christianity is, in the business of cult studies, what's known as an intentionally confusing ideology. That's the fundamental basis of mystery and unresolvable whatsits taken to indicate divinity. Of impossible but true things. The living dead, the god man, the blind made to see, etc etc etc. It also means that any given believer is constantly certain that people are confused and misrepresenting them, lol. Compartmentalization is a necessary aspect of belief in confusing ideologies, and the believers don't stop doing that when they're engaged in what would otherwise be a rational consideration of one side or the other of any article of their faiths.
The leverage of intentionally confusing postulates isn't actually limited to negative cases, though. Zen koans are another example in the set, and there's something to be said for their initial use as mysteries in christianity - they may have been intended, very much, to produce enlightenment through befuddled confusion - even though the passage of time has robbed them of that purpose and consigned them to a list of things one must simply believe.
Not only was the notion of god incarnate heretical to the putative source material, the insistence on gods humanity brought with it the frailties of human beings.
We could go around in circles about this forever, though, because christianity is, in the business of cult studies, what's known as an intentionally confusing ideology. That's the fundamental basis of mystery and unresolvable whatsits taken to indicate divinity. Of impossible but true things. The living dead, the god man, the blind made to see, etc etc etc. It also means that any given believer is constantly certain that people are confused and misrepresenting them, lol. Compartmentalization is a necessary aspect of belief in confusing ideologies, and the believers don't stop doing that when they're engaged in what would otherwise be a rational consideration of one side or the other of any article of their faiths.
The leverage of intentionally confusing postulates isn't actually limited to negative cases, though. Zen koans are another example in the set, and there's something to be said for their initial use as mysteries in christianity - they may have been intended, very much, to produce enlightenment through befuddled confusion - even though the passage of time has robbed them of that purpose and consigned them to a list of things one must simply believe.
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