John Dominic Crossan, the celebrated scholar of the historical Jesus, agrees with this take in his book “The Power of Parable - How Fiction By Jesus Became Fiction About Jesus.” His thesis is Jesus taught through parable or allegory and his followers used the same format in teaching about him. Did Jesus really walk on water? Crossan says “ No, that is a parable.”
You know why the Christians don't Tell Vatican to release all materials for all sides of archeology and translators and not just one group. Because it would reveal the truth about the whole entire New testament and more.
*An interesting parallel is the notion of 'status indian' in Canada whereby the definition is one decided upon by a foreign government and enforced as though it were something that Indians decided were true but is divorced from the literal reality of who actually is by descent not by cultural inclusion which is in direct contradistinction to the status of 'Canadian' which only requires a statement by any individual to an official for that 'status' to be legally valid...* *Colonialism is a cult of insider perks & exclusion as well...*
It was more politics then religion, senate had condemned Nerones proclaiming a damnation, even on the remembrance of the formal Princeps with severe penalty, this let Mark no choice then to go into allegory. The ceasars were divine, so the result is a mixture of religion, moralism, roman nationalism and politics. An allegoric story about a savior; Neros Chrestos, masked up as a jewish teacher but very recognizable ; Jesus Christ. All what Mark was saying; look what a good guy, not a bad one. Offcourse this was different from senate propaganda, but delicate to the people.
John Dominic Crossan, the celebrated scholar of the historical Jesus, agrees with this take in his book “The Power of Parable - How Fiction By Jesus Became Fiction About Jesus.” His thesis is Jesus taught through parable or allegory and his followers used the same format in teaching about him. Did Jesus really walk on water? Crossan says “ No, that is a parable.”
You know why the Christians don't Tell Vatican to release all materials for all sides of archeology and translators and not just one group. Because it would reveal the truth about the whole entire New testament and more.
*An interesting parallel is the notion of 'status indian' in Canada whereby the definition is one decided upon by a foreign government and enforced as though it were something that Indians decided were true but is divorced from the literal reality of who actually is by descent not by cultural inclusion which is in direct contradistinction to the status of 'Canadian' which only requires a statement by any individual to an official for that 'status' to be legally valid...*
*Colonialism is a cult of insider perks & exclusion as well...*
It was more politics then religion, senate had condemned Nerones proclaiming a damnation, even on the remembrance of the formal Princeps with severe penalty, this let Mark no choice then to go into allegory. The ceasars were divine, so the result is a mixture of religion, moralism, roman nationalism and politics. An allegoric story about a savior; Neros Chrestos, masked up as a jewish teacher but very recognizable ; Jesus Christ. All what Mark was saying; look what a good guy, not a bad one. Offcourse this was different from senate propaganda, but delicate to the people.
On point!!