(April 27, 2020 at 10:08 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(April 27, 2020 at 6:09 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: Christians believe that Jesus was the divine son of god. You don't. You invented yourself a one-man cult.
This is false. Early Christians had varying views of Jesus. The earliest simply saw him as being fully Jewish, as was Jesus' view of himself. Later groups began to see him, his life (which they mostly invented) and his death as having varying, often contradictory, meanings. The groups that, over time, established themselves became the proto-orthodox, which evolved, over time, into various orthodox factions of Christendom. The other groups were labeled as being "heretics" and/or simply died off over time.
Actually it's not false.
It may not be entirely correct with respect to the early communities, but when orthodox Christianity was codified, it is true.
By 325 in the creed developed at Nicaea, (which was argued about and non-unanimously voted on), he was said to be divine.
From then on, Christians declared him to be divine, (which makes no sense as Jesus was a Jew, and NO one approached the status of Yahweh, AND a "son of god" was simply a righteous man. In each of the gospels, the divinity is different. It is present that early, with different views.
In Hebrew culture, there were many divine beings, but none of them reached anything like the status of Yahweh.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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