RE: The Jesus story has details that is most definitely made up i just realized!!!
September 10, 2019 at 8:51 am
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2019 at 8:56 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Plausible. Ultimately, the difficulty of obtaining new information about Jesus the man and it’s irrelevance the the more historically important Christian faith has already left him in a position similar to Moses. Legendary if not mythical, a composite character, if a man.
We know that the beliefs of Christian tradition aren’t attributable to any Jesus the man. The religion itself is based on the content in magic book, explicitly legendary and mythical...combined with local folklore and conventions specific to the group of believers.
To bring it full circle to the OP’s title, ofc it contains those elements. They are theologically, not historically, important. It doesn’t matter that no preacher ever made baskets of fish appear. It is important that this preacher hand out full baskets of sustenance to his disciples, to be distributed amongst the people. That he be able to feed the multitudes. The fish aren’t fish at all.
It’s not a biography, it’s the founding documentation of a superstition.
We know that the beliefs of Christian tradition aren’t attributable to any Jesus the man. The religion itself is based on the content in magic book, explicitly legendary and mythical...combined with local folklore and conventions specific to the group of believers.
To bring it full circle to the OP’s title, ofc it contains those elements. They are theologically, not historically, important. It doesn’t matter that no preacher ever made baskets of fish appear. It is important that this preacher hand out full baskets of sustenance to his disciples, to be distributed amongst the people. That he be able to feed the multitudes. The fish aren’t fish at all.
It’s not a biography, it’s the founding documentation of a superstition.
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