(December 28, 2013 at 7:47 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:At that time Jesus was not "divine", that came later.
That's not the story as "they" tell it. Granted the whole brew had to ferment for a couple of centuries but the winners were the ones who claimed both fully human and fully divine....
Again, the concept of a dying/resurrected god was commonplace in the region. Of course there were differences in all the stories but it would not have been considered something revolutionary.
Mini, the thread is, as I understood it, how the myth began. I provide an internally and contextually consistent story of how that could have happened. How it evolved into the divinity stuff is quite different from how it began. It is a distinction that is valid and I think it is of fundamental importance: Jews did not and could not have done the divinity thing, but Jews definitely invented the resurrection story. Therefore it began somewhere, somewhen, and somehow, and that is what I focused on. How it evolved to Trinity took lots of time and the elimination of lots of "heretics" and their "heresies".
