(August 8, 2020 at 12:14 pm)Xaventis Wrote:(August 8, 2020 at 12:11 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Professor Bart D. Ehrman
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Jesus of Nazareth existed and he was a Jewish apocalyptic prophet. He did not see himself as God or as even being divine, nor did his followers. Likewise, he made no claims to having performed supernatural miracles, nor did any of his followers make such claims about him. He taught that the End of the World was near, he preached to various individuals in northern Galilee, and he performed exorcisms. He took his message to Jerusalem during Passover, there was an altercation in the Temple, and Jesus, within a day or so, got himself arrested. He probably never even met Pontius Pilate, but it was Pilate who gave the order to have Jesus crucified at the behest of the Jewish local authorities; after his execution, Jesus' body was removed from his cross and likely thrown into a nearby pit, where it may have been consumed by wild dogs.