luiza
Diamond Member
Just reporting the historical facts
Accept or reject them as you like
It is not a matter of what I do, or, I do not believe .
All you are telling me is that a few people equated the Essene monk with God around 1800 years ago .
No different from rain forest people equating Thunder or Lightning with a God or even The God .
Nice ideas , but zero per cent accurate . No actual support evidence . Lots of Hearsay .
And 1800 years ago there were a few people holding the Jesus=God belief because they had been entrained to do so--- principally by elder brother James who set up the early Church and a disturbed Saul , aka Paul , and the woman hater disciple Peter .
Now ther'e a bunch of weirdos on which to build a movement .
Then it was all further underscored by Constantine 1800 years ago(!!!) picking and choosing what he wanted Christians to believe in and what he rejected .
Today that plot would not pass the Hollywood credibility test .And they happily churn out rubbish all the time .
Conclusion ? Each to our own .