RE: Didn't Nero launch Christianity?
April 16, 2019 at 8:34 am
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2019 at 8:44 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The term historical jesus does not refer to a story about a god that appeared to people in human form. Marcion rejected the notion of a historical jesus in preference to a mythical christ.
Perhaps using someone elses mythology will help, since your own belief in mythology is clearly a barrier to understanding the difference in this christian context. There are also stories of pagan gods appearing in human form and "records" of conversations and events that transpired when they did. That people really believed their own mythology just as you believe in yours is not a certification or comment on a historical zues, or a historical odin, or a historical wakan tanka.
The historicist position, the thing that the term historical jesus refers to, is the notion that there was a flesh and blood man who was born, had a human life, and a human death - and that the stories of the mythical christ were meaningfully based on that real person. If, instead, the mythical christ is a story of a god appearing in human form, like any other zeus or odin or wakan tanka, that was later historicized (as a real flesh and blood man with a birth a human life and human death)...this would be the mythicist position.
Perhaps using someone elses mythology will help, since your own belief in mythology is clearly a barrier to understanding the difference in this christian context. There are also stories of pagan gods appearing in human form and "records" of conversations and events that transpired when they did. That people really believed their own mythology just as you believe in yours is not a certification or comment on a historical zues, or a historical odin, or a historical wakan tanka.
The historicist position, the thing that the term historical jesus refers to, is the notion that there was a flesh and blood man who was born, had a human life, and a human death - and that the stories of the mythical christ were meaningfully based on that real person. If, instead, the mythical christ is a story of a god appearing in human form, like any other zeus or odin or wakan tanka, that was later historicized (as a real flesh and blood man with a birth a human life and human death)...this would be the mythicist position.
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