“If the Jesus of faith is not also the Jesus of history, he’s powerless and he’s meaningless. Unless he’s rooted in reality, unless he established his divinity by rising from the dead, he’s just a feel-good symbol who’s as irrelevant as Santa Claus” (Strobel, 127). Strobel’s reaction to the claim that Jesus wasn’t historical is the same (failed) attempt of the early church to justify the historical Jesus: if he wasn’t historical, he would have been ...
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I'm the author of Gods of Myth and Man and Evil Be My Good. I have a PhD in comparative literature, and am interested in how mythological and religious symbolism influences contemporary pop culture.
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