RE: Did Jesus decompose?
March 10, 2019 at 11:20 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2019 at 11:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 10, 2019 at 11:17 pm)tackattack Wrote:(March 8, 2019 at 1:17 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Early christians absolutely did not realize any such thing. There was bitter division on the issue - entire subgroups of christians were executed. Hypostatic union was a political compromise between them. In effect, it was decided that both camps were "fully right" so that they could stop killing each other and poaching adherents in the zero sum game of christian authority.I'm not saying that there were no bloody gains, differing of opinions have led to far worse. Your summation that there was a cease fire until the Ecumenical Council of Constantinople for the purpose of growing the body of believers though is a bit of a perfunctory miss. Your post misses the obvious that there are several historical meetings that concede to the 100% divinity and 100% manhood of Jesus Christ, which has fed into modern cannon. There is no rule saying you can't be 100% a father and 100% a brother, and 100% an sexy beast to boot and you're trying to create a false dichotomy where one doesn't exist. Jesus was 100% man and 100% God at the same time.
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I'm not exactly relating debatable issues of the development of christian belief here, man. I appreciate that you've been left, many centuries after the fact, with squaring the circle of what two mortally opposed belief systems dictated to their adherents...it's not an enviable position....but do you appreciate that?
There were alot of decisions made in order to grow the body of believers...or at least to stop that growing body from chopping off it's own fingers. This simply had to be done in the context of the formative years of christian belief. It's not that my post misses it so much as it doesn't need it. Christians failed to agree on anything the first few go rounds. They still fail, and they've been steadily producing new fault lines every day since the first day. The current ceasefire, like the earliest ceasefires, have to do with necessity in the face of a well organized political authority.
It's not about any dichotomy -I- create. To some of the most ideologically influencial proto christians, the notion that god was even a fraction of a percent a man was unacceptable. Ultimately, the romanized demi-god narrative won out for obvious reasons.
(reasons that were even more obvious, hilariously, at the time)
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