(August 13, 2019 at 10:52 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: There isn’t any history whatsoever in the story of Jesus, even if there was Some Guy.
There are lumberjacks named Paul, too.
The stories we have were selected for their theological content, exclusively. It’s not a biography of a man.
Exactly this. The Synoptic Gospels are a hagiography in the truest sense of the word. They are no more an account of the life of Jesus of Nazareth than the Ulster Cycle is a reliable history of the Uliad.
Boru
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