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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Neocon who wrote (71310)1/7/2000 8:25:00 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
<<Do you think that it makes sense that so many people would have so utterly misunderstood the movement in which they found themselves, that there was an utter disconnect between what Jesus said and anything they said about him subsequently?>>

Yes, emphatically yes!!! I do not believe people were even IN a movement. There is nothing in the contemporary historical record about Jesus or his execution. As I recall from previous reading on this subject, the first mention was about 150 years later. He was a minor political criminal who was executed in a very common way, and only a few hundred, or at the most around a thousand people would have known about it. The four Gospels started being written sixty years after his death, are NOT actually similar and were written to increase interest in Jesus in different Mediterranean cultures.

The most interesting reason is why all this happened, and that is what fascinates me. I do know that the theologians interviewed for the PBS series on Jesus discussed how Jesus' legend was kept alive by his mostly female followers. Almost everyone wants to believe in something
or someone, and it really seems that he was such a compelling and charismatic figure that he was remembered long enough for his legend to be embellished and embroidered. The elements of Christian belief were developed fairly slowly and then voted on at the Council of Nicea several hundred years later; it is really difficult for me to call Jesus anything more than a catalyst for a new religion, Christianity, because it grew after he died.
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