Sorry, I sent this to the wrong Google group list On Tuesday, December 26, 2017 at 9:51:33 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > Written to somebody else: > > Jesus as portrayed in the Gospels most likely never actually existed. > Jesus is a character in mythic narratives. There may of course have been a > number of men like Jesus, or Jeshua (Joshua), at the time. There may have > been itinerant rabbis who went around giving parishas similar to what forms > the Gospels have Jesus saying. There may have been somebody who declared > themselves the "I AM" to the temple priests or Sanhedrin, which of course > is bound to cause trouble. What do we ordinarily think of people who go > around saying they are God? The mythic character then was developed to be > the most miraculous, say by raising the dead as did Elijah etc and then > resurrecting himself after sacrificing Himself to Himself through suicide > by cop. The biblical character of Jesus is then a sort of compilation of > midrash and tales told at the time, which now define this mythic character > of Jesus. > > Of course Jesus was further defined by Saul of Tarsus, which is where we > start to get the authoritarian Jesus. The other epistles of Paul, Peter and > John all elevate Jesus to a higher level. Then in the Book of Revelations > Jesus appears as a towering figure Who's tongue is a slashing sword. He > commands angels to pour out 7 plagues from bowls, where it might be > imagined the scribes writing in the name of John were smoking lots of > bowls. > > LC >
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