Reading Mark A Real Jesus Emerges - Just Not That Familiar

G. A. Wells: Jesus the Myth, Man of the Indefinite Past: Paul, for instance, wrote before any gospel existed, and his Jesus lived on earth as a shadowy figure of the indefinite past. Such early Christians developed their beliefs in the tradition of Jewish Wisdom speculation about a supernatural personage who sought an abode on earth but was rejected by man and who then returned to heaven.

I think that this is speculation. The person who emerges n Mark is real enough for me. He is iconoclastic, does not suffer fools gladly, is universal in his POV and worst of all he says it is OK for us to be done with the devil and act according to the idea that a house undivided will stand. He also says we can heal each other beyond the interference of priests. Few of these ethereal scholars look to such things.

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