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Jiang says the stable historical core is much smaller than the Bible story: Jesus was born around 4 BCE in Galilee, learned from John the Baptist, was crucified by Rome, and left a movement inherited by James the...
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Jiang says the stable historical core is much smaller than the Bible story: Jesus was born around 4 BCE in Galilee, learned from John the Baptist, was crucified by Rome, and left a movement inherited by James the Just.
He says Jesus probably did not teach belief-in-me salvation; the real questions are what he believed, why it spread, and why Rome treated him as dangerous.
"How did Jesus die for our sins? Why is there such a thing coming? It's all a miracle, okay? Meaning don't question it, just..."
"I know in the Bible it says he was born in the year zero. But he's actually born four years before that, all right?..."
"So Jesus was preaching a message that is different from John the Baptist, okay? So that's the second thing we know. The third thing..."
"The first type are thieves and bandits, all right? These are considered the lowest type of people. The second type of people are rebels,..."
"Why do you have to let people know who you are? You've already redeemed humanity, why do people have to worship you? Why do..."
"I'm sure Jesus did not preach, did not teach, believe in me and you'll be saved, okay? He probably did not do that. Christians..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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