This was the bible for a very long time before anyone heard of jesus. It was their "truth", they studied and interpreted it endlessly.
Along comes jesus and he and a very few followers say, "this is the messiah. He is the son of god and we must follow him for soon there will be an apacolypse".
The jews who found jesus so unimpressive no one bothered to even write about him for 65 years or so (Josephus) say "uh, no I don't think so, jesus who? Never heard of him". Oh you mean the blasphemer, criminal who died on the cross? You people are nuts that's not the messiah'.
So then the christians go to the gentile polytheists and say " this is our new and improved god, you should follow him here are some stories I was told by the friend of a friend of my neighbours wifes cousin.
And the Romans who know no better and very little of the OT say "well he is sort of like the best of all of our gods rolled into one warm fuzzy package so whatever, whats one more god?
2007-08-11
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