@rezaaslan How much of Jesus' story might be conflated with other earlier and later rebels named Jesus? Seems there were many. #ZealotChat
@Winlar @JohnFugelsang Lot of gospel story has elements of Roman mystery religions, Mithraism, Zoroastrianism. Evolved over time #ZealotChat
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@rezaaslan@JohnFugelsang But specifically how much is known of these other rebel Jesuses you mention in your book? Why didn't they catch on -
@Winlar@JohnFugelsang Lots known about them. Didn't catch BC they failed to do 1 thing Messiah was supposed to do: Rebuild David's Kingdom -
@rezaaslan@JohnFugelsang Yeah, but Jesus didn't rebuild David's kingdom either. What makes him the alpha-Jesus? Just Paul's PR?#ZealotChat -
@Winlar@JohnFugelsang Precisely. He too failed as messiah. But disciples changed the definition of messiah to make it fit him#ZealotChat -
@rezaaslan@Winlar How do people respond when you say Jesus wasn't the Messiah, by the Bible's own definition?#ZealotChat -
@JohnFugelsang@Winlar not well, but it's true. Jesus didn't do ANYTHING the Jewish messiah was supposed to.#ZealotChat -
@rezaaslan@JohnFugelsang@Winlar Have you read Isaiah? -
@DubyaBee1@rezaaslan@JohnFugelsang Yes. I've read the entire bible. Very boring customer service job.
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