I'm discussing it now.don't think it'd work out that way on Earth because 1) we don't have a central theocracy 2) Earth didn't explode
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3) Even if the Pope and the Eastern Patriarch got together and cloned Jesus and gave him memories they agreed on, I don't think >
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> the laity would follow the clone in great numbers once they knew the whole truth.
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Yeah the implication that the Klingons all just accept this was a major weakness in that episode
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Note: while obviously folk religion has gone ham ascribing magic to the flesh and blood of Christ, officially he was a 100% normal human
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Officially the doctrine that Jesus was anything other than a completely normal man - an angel, a superhuman, a simulation - is heresy
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...but a completely normal human whose father was actually, genetically God, yes? I mean. Mary is canonically a virgin.
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Well yes God created Jesus' body from whole cloth by magic but made him a completely ordinary human, it's a test of faith
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Like God burying fossils or whatever
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As people have pointed out despite the Renaissance Greek god paintings of Jesus in the Gospels ppl repeatedly remark on how ordinary he is
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"A prophet in his own country is without honor" is about how Jesus' childhood neighbors refused to take him seriously
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The official doctrine I had drilled into my head was that Jesus was "fully divine and fully human", however you resolve that paradox
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Even his miraculous powers are supposed to be things any human could do if they had perfect faith in God
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