At the risk of committing heresy: the death and resurrection of Jesus seems like the least important part of his story? His teaching of listening to and purifying the heart (in the context of a head obsessed Judaism) seem much more relevant and the metaphysical part?
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i would like to understand what the actual deal is with jesus sometime, generally
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- one of the all time most gnostically enlightened mystic rabbis of tried to share his experience of enlightenment with everyone and it freaked ppl out
- 'the final sacrifice' offered a way out of the world's most brutal methods of staining forgivment
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You might want to read Richard Carrier's "On The Historicity of Jesus".
The Jesus story makes complete sense as a mythical figure put into history with an earthly biography.
Of course, the theological *meaning* of that story is a separate question
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