Jesus Did Not Exist by Lataster Raphael

Author:Lataster, Raphael
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-12T05:00:00+00:00

This quotation also supports my explanation for why more (quantitatively and qualitatively) explicit Celestial Jesus or Wisdom Jesus passages did not survive. Ehrman ends, incredibly, by admitting that Christians may indeed have thought of Jesus as God’s Wisdom, but asserts, with no evidence, and possibly going against the evidence, that this was not the belief of the earliest Christians or Paul.[1063]

Anyhow, the intertestamental literature oft seems bizarre but coincidentally finds similarities with the earliest Christian documents. We objective scholars and historians do not just simply brush this off; we think probabilistically. All this indicates that many mythicists may have been right all along. Not only is the Celestial Jesus theory possible, and plausible, it seems like it could be very probable. After all, the increasing amount of purportedly historical material over time certainly favours the ‘mythical to historical’ trajectory. Consider also that ‘clues’ regarding a Celestial Jesus found in texts that generally posit an earthly Gospel Jesus heavily suggests that the Celestial Jesus came first. Given that it were (and still are) the supporters of the earthly Gospel Jesus that collected, preserved, and edited the biblical texts, for many centuries, it is obviously more probable that such Celestial Jesus ‘clues’ were original remnants that slipped through, rather than later additions.[1064] Of course, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time that a religion, myth, or movement originated with an entirely fictional founder.

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