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Originally posted by Stukarrera
If you believe the fable.
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This is the remark of someone who has not looked into the historical backdrop with any degree of seriousness whatsoever. Or at least, I'd ask what part can be considered "fable." There is no historian on the planet, that I am aware of or that scholars would take seriously, who would deny the factual, historical existence of Jesus Christ. That's a given. He lived. No question about that.
And we know he shook things up greatly. Another fact. And that he was crucified, and some other objective facts.
What is POSSIBLE to doubt, is the historical accuracy of a particular statement attributed to Christ. Okay. Any given remark can be questioned. Many of them are backed up in multiple documents, and so historians do not often question the accuracies of the various accounts, but hey, occasionally a person who wants to be considered the genius that other scholars are not smart enough to attain will argue that a number of remarks are inaccurate. Okay.
but no matter how you slice it, this guy lived. And he shook things up. And if even so little as ten percent of the remarks attributed to him were actually made by him.....then you have a truly remarkable story. You have one of two things. Either this is the story of God's Son reaching out to His inheritance (that'd be us), or it is the story of a madman. This guy lived, and he said some things that could only be said by a madman, or a divine person. One of those things, is that he did not come here to judge, but to separate. To separate according to each person's choice. So....there's the choice. Plain and simple. Madman? Christ? "Who do you say I am?" is the question that reverberates across the universe and the millenia.
Okay, preaching over. Just don't call this story a fable. That's not a live option, unless you have no idea what you're talking about.