I had another look at Antinous and Alexander the Great in Post #268.
The pagans liked to follow a formula where their deities and heroes were concerned. The question of whether Jesus was based on a real person or completely fictional could be irrelevant here - either way, deified Jesus would have ended up exactly the same.
Maybe asking if there was a real Jesus is like asking if there was a real King Arthur. Nobody will ever know the truth so both are inexhaustible subjects for books and speculation.
The legends of Alexander the Great make me wonder about some of those divine heroes. "Heracles won the weight lifting competition five years in a row. Only a son of Zeus could have done that." A few centuries later, the five times weight lifting champion had been all over the Greco-Roman world having mythological adventures.
Anyway, back to Jesus. The Roman Centurion knew who he was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AejZxaYkekM
The pagans liked to follow a formula where their deities and heroes were concerned. The question of whether Jesus was based on a real person or completely fictional could be irrelevant here - either way, deified Jesus would have ended up exactly the same.
Maybe asking if there was a real Jesus is like asking if there was a real King Arthur. Nobody will ever know the truth so both are inexhaustible subjects for books and speculation.
The legends of Alexander the Great make me wonder about some of those divine heroes. "Heracles won the weight lifting competition five years in a row. Only a son of Zeus could have done that." A few centuries later, the five times weight lifting champion had been all over the Greco-Roman world having mythological adventures.
Anyway, back to Jesus. The Roman Centurion knew who he was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AejZxaYkekM
Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?
