RE: For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus
February 22, 2013 at 2:06 am
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2013 at 2:06 am by Justtristo.)
(February 21, 2013 at 10:04 am)Rhythm Wrote:(February 21, 2013 at 6:24 am)Justtristo Wrote: These days I personally subscribe to the view that Jesus started off as a mythical character who later got made into a historical character.
In the same way that there were myths of dragons long before anyone put fossils and the myths together, in the same way that there were myths of cyclops before anyone pointed to a mastodon skull. We weave tales and then delight in the myriad ways we can relate them to our existence in reality. It's not even remotely surprising or unexpected.
Which came first?
The shaman?
Honi?
Honi the Rainmaker?
Which is historical and which is mythical? In this narrative, very much, imho, like the Christ narrative - the name before "Rainmaker" like the name before "Christ" is inconsequential, you can plug in anything you like, because the narrative of the epitaph existed before the narrative of the noun. Supposing you wholeheartedly swallow the notion of some jesus being foretold in prophecy theres simply no way to argue that the narrative didn't precede the "subject" in any case. It doesn't really matter what angle you approach it form, the story came first.
Your argument sounds quite plausible, however as I read the Pauline Epistltes and the Epistle to the Hebrews, it is clear they portray a Jesus who lived and died in the heavenly realms.
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