(December 20, 2020 at 9:07 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: To be fair, this isn't an unprecedented idea; both the Talmud and Celsus claim that he was the product of an adulterous relationship between Mary and a Roman soldier named Pantera. Then again, given that Celsus was anti-Christian and, by the time the Talmud was finally written down, relations between Judaism and Christianity had gone down the toilet, and that there's no real corroborating evidence for this claim, it's likely not true, though, that said, it's as plausible an explanation as any.
For more plausible than a divine Y-chromoasome, but less plausible than "the whole lot of crap is just made up".
