Jesus: The Man, the MythThe truth about Jesus is that he never intended to start a church or a new religion. He did not understand himself to be the divine Son of God; rather, he saw himself as the “Son of [hu]Man[ity]” or an “average Joe.” Not only did he not start a church, he joined the reform movement of John the Baptizer (aka John the Baptist), who was a popular and charismatic Jewish prophet.
So who is Jesus Christ? The Jesus Christ of most traditional theology is a distortion of both the Jesus of history and the Christ of the Christian faith—an attempt to take the metaphor of Christ and invest it totally in the historical figure of Jesus of Nazareth. It is a distortion because it makes a very Jewish Jesus into the first Christian and not the faithful Jew that he was. The truth about “Jesus Christ” is that when we look only at this hybrid concept we lose clear sight of both the human being and the mythological icon. What we hope to do in this dig is excavate separately the man (Jesus) and the myth (Christ) and unearth a new meaning for the statement “Jesus [is] Christ.”
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2 comments:
There never, never, never lived, or was a "jesus"! Wake up!
It's a fairytale used to warp your mind and enslave you to a bunch of thieves whose base is in the Vatican! They take toy, and candy money from little kids to pay for all their frolicking, and high living! They give a 'slice' to get a 'loaf', or a lollipop for a little debauchery! It's a Ponzi scheme carried o it's utmost and petuated by fools like you, IDIOT!
I think he was just a man that was willing to die to see to it that what Herod done never happened again. The people wanted proof that Isaiah's Messiah was going to come and it cost them their new born babies. So perhaps the sin he died for was their wanting proof that a human son of god would come to relive them of their not knowing the truth of their existance.
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