Originally Posted by storytime

Ok, the best case for a mythical Jesus that would fit into the times of the ancient Jewish Christ development up into the days of Rome would be successionism of that figure in characterization implied.

The virgin birth story was most likely invented to show the purity of no sin in the created god-man Jesus. It was, after all, extremely important that Jesus be perfect. Inventing gods required particular attention be paid to the supernatural, and all the gods invented before Jesus held supernatural qualites in whatever formula's instituted by the inventors.

Borrowing attributes from past gods was a common element of construction which provided the base or foundation for another god, as well as those past beliefs that accompanied the god or goddess.

Names were also provided in the extension of new gods and goddesses. The "sons of gods" extending the name further in tradition of its being the standard whereby the ancients worshiped. Everything became an extension out of what was and what was to be. There was not one god who survived without this method of extension, and by which method we see existing today.

Jesus is constantly being changed and extended through the many new beliefs Christians invent about his person, his power, his everlasting forgiveness, his perfection,etc. Hundreds of new formed denominations prove this extension of the god-man as he is pushed into ever wider interpretations. This New World Ordered Jesus is now no longer the same NT Jesus of the past. The ancient NT Jesus is being forced into the backseat with Yahweh as a new world ordered god-man takes his place on center stage.

Just as in the ancient Hebrew god stories that have taken a backstep to time, Jesus the god-man is now being re-examined not for his historicity but for the myth of Christ that men of history created. And..even though both Yahweh and Jesus will continue to be worshiped as the gods they were created to be, their valued worth to society and the world is becoming less and less believed as truth, even by the ones who preach his name.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that successive storytelling eventually wipes out the past tall tales so that we end up with a consistent running of new ones. The new gods are here. And we as humans become the better equiped to deal with survival on a grander scale.

Originally Posted by aa5874

And to reinforce your point Justin Martyr would declare "What we propose is nothing different."

If you can believe in the Sons of Jupiter you can believe in Jesus the Son of God.


This is Justin Martyr with his "nothing different Jesus" in First Apology"XXI.



See http://www.earlychristianwritings.com

Jesus was a story no different to existing stories.

Originally Posted by angelo atheist

On the contrary. The DSS are silent on the figure of Jesus. The Teacher of Righteousness is not Jesus. No scholar that I read has ever claimed otherwise.