The Godspell Jesus: The only revered person in history who never wrote his own manuscript. Never happened ever before or after.
What about the Dhammapada, and the life of Siddartha Gautama? The Buddha was revered for c. 600 years before Jesus was born and never wrote anything down.
This leaves the figure of JC to be whatever whoever wants to make of him.
He is not unique here either.
1. He never wrote it down! Its so unlike 55 other jewish revered souls. The dead sea scrolls was surpressed for 50 years not because it contained something negative about Jesus - in fact it was surpressed because it was set in the same period of Jesus - and that NOTHINGNESS was said of, by, for him. Shock of shocks - nothing. This while the scrolls contained 100s of copies of all of the OT books, and new ones never known, and which gave details of the minutae news of the day - like reading yesterday's NY Times. Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry sus!
And remember, if Jesus was the Messiah we wouldn’t be sitting here chatting abut Him.
2. Instead of confronting Rome - the gospels hails Jesus for confronting hapless, rowdy money-changers, doing what they did for 2000 years - observing a mandated OT law. WHAT - GASP - SERIOUS!!??? Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr un-jewish!
I always found the cleansing of the Temple by a single man to be a ridiculous piece of propaganda.
However, keep in mind that Xians have corrupted who and what the Messiah was to be and what he was going to achieve.
When it became obvious that Jesus was no messiah, His followers had to come up with some excuses for His blatant failure to achieve anything that the messiah would achieve. Imagine how devastated the Jewish nation would be if the Messiah was defeated? In fact, IF the ”messiah’ was defeated then he wouldn’t have been the messiah promised by God.
Jesus. Nice guy, but clearly no messiah.
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