Not to mention that Rudolf Bultmann and many Protestant theologians claim that Jesus never considered himself to be the Messiah. Jesus never once confronted the traditional nationalistic idea of the messiah, and he never contrasted to it a corrected, spiritualized concept of the messiah. Texts that say otherwise, or contrary statements from Jesus' own mouth, are, these critics claim, merely legends.
So who am I to believe? Drich or Rudolf Bultmann or someone third, fourth, or maybe to those that say Jesus was an alien? Or maybe they are all just going on a wild goose chase.
So who am I to believe? Drich or Rudolf Bultmann or someone third, fourth, or maybe to those that say Jesus was an alien? Or maybe they are all just going on a wild goose chase.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
