(February 28, 2015 at 5:20 pm)Godschild Wrote: Read the NT it's recorded there.
GC
"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill -- the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill -- you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." -- Morpheus
GC is among the 'blue pill' variety of Bible readers who is happy to dream and suckle his life away in his assigned pod. He and his ilk can be safely ignored.
If you choose the red pill, on the other hand, you end up in a place that just gets 'curiouser and curiouser' as Alice said. To see how weirdly fashioned a place the NT Wonderland is, run a search for 'Old Testament prophesies fulfilled by Jesus', read each of these alleged 'prophesies' in context, and behold the Christian imagination (and lack of intellectual integrity) at work.
What was Jesus like? Damned if I know! The more I think about it, the less certain I am that there is anything there to grasp onto. The search for the historical Jesus is, I admit, compelling fun, but it is a little like trying to catch the wind in your hands. Peel away all of the NT's mythological elements, all of its clumsy pseudo-scholarly appeals to scripture, and all of the propaganda inserted to uphold one version of Christianity while dismissing its competitors and you're not left with much.
