RE: What were Jesus and early Christians like?
March 4, 2015 at 10:17 am
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2015 at 10:22 am by Anomalocaris.)
(March 4, 2015 at 9:44 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: ......
And even if we can be sure that this Historical Jesus existed, is he even the Gospel character Jesus anymore?
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The miracles and the divinity ARE the story of Jesus. Take them away and you tell a different story about a different person.
If jesus is ultimately, albeit distantly, derived from one, or a composit of several, historic characters, it would offer a great deal of insight into human behavior and sociology to fill in the pieces in the evolution from jesus the nobody, to jesus the dead, to jesus the fantasy that is the master of 2 billion wishthinkers.
It is quite true what we have at hand appears to fall far short of what is needed to fill in the pieves to high degree of certainty. But that does not mean trying to do so is therefore worthless and to be scorned.