(February 22, 2013 at 11:50 am)Rhythm Wrote:(February 22, 2013 at 2:06 am)Justtristo Wrote: 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.
Which isn't as easy to relate to or spin a narrative about as a living breathing buddy jesus in the here and then. Some narrative structures are successful and the stories wrapped around them survive, some are not and they eventually stop being told. I wouldn't keep telling a story about a heavenly jesus and his magical realm for very long myself. Not alot of those heavenly realm stories are still making their way to any best seller list, know what I mean? Whens the last time you saw any anthology of myth top the charts? Is it really surprising that whatever the jesus narrative was once it's become what it is today? Especially in the light of how the rest of our fiction trended in the same time?
As Doherty states people in that place and time believed that the heavenly realms weren't in some other dimension, rather there were somewhere above the atmosphere somewhere between the Earth and the Moon. So to these people this place was as real as our world. Doherty also argued that only later on Jesus was "brought down to earth" to speak.
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