JESUS <3

[Jenny A]

Worrrrrrd to the heathens!!  

So, do you think Jesus was a real person?

Mostly likely there was a rabbi or prophet named Jesus about 2000ish years ago.

I'm simply asking if you think there was a man 2000ish years ago named Jesus who brought forth these new "ideas" that we now call Christianity.

That's a slightly different question.  There would be no Christianity if he'd never preached.  But, I don't think Christianity has much to do with what he taught.  I'm not sure he thought he was divine.  He preached the kingdom of god on earth was coming soon, before his death even.  He expected god to raise the weak and poor and humble the strong and rich.   He told people to behave as if that were so.  He said that he and his disciples would be god's representatives of earth.  He thought he was the son of god as David and Salomon were sons of god not as the begotten son of god.  

He may have expected to die at the hands of the Romans before he was crucified but not at the beginning of his ministry.  

Christianity is what his disciples and those that followed made out of his death. What they made of it, causes Christians to ignore much of what he taught.  Much of that is still in the gospels.