Just what is your interest here John67? You write these long posts of stuff that has been around for a century or more. You draw conclusions that might be of interest to a liberal Protestant. What's your expectation?
Just trying to point out that Jesus wasn't a God, but just a man.
The Christians also claim he is a god. Are you denying this? If so, what is your point. You are contradicting and denying 2000+ years of Christian theology. Was that your point?
Lois
Pretty sure that's where he's going. Besides some not-so-good myth theories out there, there is some actual historical work being done to UN-do the mess that Christians have done throughout the ages. This is being done by believers and non-believers. Or, going back further, you could say things got messy when the Jews returned from the Babylonian exile and tried to reconstruct their culture.
The tradition of denying Jesus is god is not exactly new. It's right there in the Bible. Jews obviously did it, or they wouldn't still be Jews. Christians never stopped arguing over which interpretation of the scriptures is correct. When you say "contradicting and denying 2000+ years of Christian theology", which theology are you talking about? This idea that Christians are under attack from some outside non-religious force is a new one. There has never been a time when all Christians were unified.
Maybe not, but it seems to me that being a Christian means believing Jesus was a god. As with every belief system, there will be some renegades. Do you think most of the world's Christians think Jesus is a god or not?
I was raised a Catholic and I was taught that Jesus was god. I never heard any arguments to the contrary. I spent many hours in catechism classes studying the divinity of Jesus and the trinity. The people I knew in the church would be shocked if anyone suggested that Jesus was not god. It is the "heart and soul" of Catholic and probably most Protestant theology as far as I can determine.