RE: If Jesus came back to life....what was his sacrifice?
May 8, 2013 at 6:30 pm
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2013 at 6:33 pm by Ryantology.)
(May 8, 2013 at 5:34 pm)Godschild Wrote: If so many charlatans were so popular then why have they passed away in history, oh that's right they passed away. I would guess it's fairly hard to be popular after you've been dead a few years. You sure are good at making assumptions with your present day knowledge about people who so many years ago. MWOM
How long you remain relevant has to do with how much of an effort your contemporaries make to ensure that your legend lives on. Jesus had a lot of help, both from contemporary storytellers to the generations of armed men who forced Christianity upon everyone they could reach at swordpoint. If not for Emperor Constantine deciding that the Cross would make a handy rallying symbol for his trained killers, or if that cynical move had failed, Jesus would very likely have faded into obscurity ages ago.
Besides, it isn't as if Jesus is unique even in this regard. To name just two, Confucius and Gautama Buddha have been just as relevant to the world as Jesus, and for many centuries more. The Ancient Egyptian pantheon had a run almost as long as Jesus, and preceded him by millennia. There may very likely be more followers of Allah than Jesus in a century or two. Longevity has nothing to do with the truth of one's claims.
