RE: Why didn't JB join JC?
January 27, 2023 at 9:48 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2023 at 9:56 pm by Rev. Rye.)
(January 27, 2023 at 4:50 pm)GUBU Wrote:(January 26, 2023 at 4:47 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Some of the Gospels claim that Jesus was God and that John the Baptist was aware of that, so why didn't John the Baptist disband his cult and join Jesus's cult and become his apostle? I mean would you not rather be in the cult ran by an actual God than in someone's who is not a God?
Because Jesus didn't exist, so his inventors used the extant (but dwindling) cult of John to give their cult a false legitimacy.
Well, that's a good Doylist explanation.
A Watsonian explanation would likely point out that this little event got in the way of John and Jesus doing much.
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When I think about the stranger parts in the Bible, I tend to look for both explanations, if only because it makes shit more interesting.
And, yes, I did choose that one specifically because it belongs to my local, The Art Institute, which also has a few other paintings by the same artist covering the whole beheading saga.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.