RE: The Historical Jesus
May 20, 2024 at 12:27 pm
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2024 at 12:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm not sure I'd want "started a religion" competing in the same category as agriculture, metallurgy, germ theory, and computing. The historical jesus is a background character for the history of an institution, which plugged along the way it did regardless of what set of facts is the true set of facts about the basis of the character in the new testament...up to and including full-on christ. Why christoians believe what they do today has everything to do with the former..and little -if anything- to do with the latter.
Whether, for example, a christian life was a good one. Turns out the christian doesn't think that christ, let alone a historical jesus, has any real bearing on that.
Whether, for example, a christian life was a good one. Turns out the christian doesn't think that christ, let alone a historical jesus, has any real bearing on that.
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