Reply #122: I think you've got a gun in your hand and are insisting on firing it. [View All]

[saltpoint]

Put the gun down.

Here's my deal on Jesus: he might have existed. He might not have. I have no idea. Neither do you.

There is, however, a body of scholarship about him, some of which is extraordinarily lively, most of which is predictably sober. Some by Crossan and other modernists (or post-modernists, if you want), others by far more traditional thinkers.

You can have your favorites or not among that entire variance and the whole field, as far as I'm concerned.

You can have a resurrected Jesus or a more historical Jesus -- matters not to me.

You pick.

You can have no Jesus at all.

But in traditional academic circles, you either are able to discuss Jesus of Galilee or you are not able to. I'm able to. Sounds to me as if you are also.

Leave off with the dead walking thing. It's a dead-end.