RE: Who was Jesus?
August 18, 2021 at 4:09 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2021 at 4:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 18, 2021 at 3:24 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Does it really matter if Jesus was God's literal Son or not?
Well, in short, ofc. Particularly to those people and societies who premise some other assertion on the truth of that assertion.
It's certainly a requirement to believe in a literal christ to be christian (as opposed to a jesusist) - and it's important whether or not that belief is true or false to christian assertions (as opposed to jesusist assertions), for example. In the grander scheme of religious belief? No, not at all. Jesus doesn't have to be real or the real son of god - and isn't, and wasn't, for there to be christians or jesusists. Fitness of the message kind of thing.
While people interested in categorizing superstitious beliefs might then refer to a demographics christianity, others exploring culture or religious beliefs might focus on their shared social items, things that may, in fact, survive the death of the superstition and be found over and over as the demographic assumes and abandons new superstitions. A cultural christian without christ is just as religious as one who still believes in a literal son of god. At some point, the truth of some assertion matters to any asserted worldview, at least in an academic sense.
Practically, people can be nuts for no reason at all and to no specific end. It's a thing we do, apparently.
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