(April 12, 2019 at 9:18 pm)Acrobat Wrote: Jesus being crucified seems a lot more likely than the sort conspiracy theories you’re trying to sell.
That's why I said embellished. The first preaching of Christianity featured but "Christ crucified" (1 Cor. 2:2) with no historical setting or detail. I Cor. 2:8 has him crucified by the mythic Archons, the archangelic servants of the Gnostic Demiurge.
And then Gospels embellished it into ridiculous trial, torture, makes Jews into Christ killers, supernatural darkness over the scene for three hours.
While Paul himself said there was no supernatural component to it what so ever: "For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles," would seem to envision a conspicuously nonsupernatural crucifixion scene; else why would miracle-hungry Jews be disappointed in the preaching of the cross?
