god being within all humans & a lot of fellow rabbis & students liked the idea. you know the rest. or you certainly should. did he say during his lifetime that he was the son of god? i don’t know, but i do know that roman judean society was in ferment. you couldn’t throw an olive pit without
If Jesus even existed.
if i had to say yes or no, i’d select yes. i know there were contemporary & later in the first century accounts of his human existence. but i’m sure there are equally compelling arguments that he did not & was an amalgamation of several apocalyptic jewish preachers.
Agreed. The guy seems to have been the subject of some reasonably contemporary reporting. It would be strange to have reports about a first century middle-class Jewish carpenter on the fringes of the Empire if he was totally imaginary. Like, why bother?
very true. roman judea was a backwater. no one who wanted to be a roman someone hung out there. until…
hitting a jewish or noahide person (probably a man) claiming to be a god or godlike. meanwhile, the non jewish population was ripe for spiritual awakening. they didn’t identify with judaism but the greek pantheon of gods didn’t stand up to even light scrutiny. jesus preached to them & like i said,
you know the rest.