ninj
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I see Jesus as a revolutionary Love emissary. The most striking difference from other holy figures is that not only is the message to love one another, but to love the unlovable. Also Jesus had no problem with women disciples....an incredible and improbable idea at the time. Women were property! Enslaved people were property! Samaritans were despised, as were tax collectors. Jesus hung out with all the wrong people. That message must have been incredibly life-giving at the time.
I don't think the modern mind can grasp the enormity of this.
My understanding differs a bit. I see an historical story that doesn't set Jesus apart as a visitor from God. All prophets and holy people from the beginning -- long before Christianity -- were similarly set into a narrative of birth/death/resurrection. This has always gotten people's attention. We have always liked a good, hopeful story and so it got widely shared.
I don't think the modern mind can grasp the enormity of this.
My understanding differs a bit. I see an historical story that doesn't set Jesus apart as a visitor from God. All prophets and holy people from the beginning -- long before Christianity -- were similarly set into a narrative of birth/death/resurrection. This has always gotten people's attention. We have always liked a good, hopeful story and so it got widely shared.