Was Jesus real?

[Karadeniz]

55. I think there may have been a Jesus, but not as described in scripture. Perhaps a psychic medium

Who could communicate with masters on the other side... That still goes on. I'm pretty sure that a whole lot of the Jesus story takes place on the other side... The synoptic gospels really are a masterpiece of symbols. The level of writing and the theology hidden in those writings is not a Jesus-came-to-save-you theology, the theology of Paul's "children." However, it is the theology of the Gnostics. Unless the beliefs of the Gnostics are understood, one simply can't unravel scripture.

Putting Gnostics in charge of Jerusalem central, organizing a missionary system, developing a story that functions on two levels to spread their message...all this would be quite possible with Gnostics in charge rather than a herd of backwater peasants. But Gnosticism didn't begin at the year dot or in Judea. It's immediate predecessor to its Jerusalem mission was probably in Egypt, which is probably why the writers put Jesus in Egypt... a nod to their beginnings.

So why Jerusalem? Why proselytize to the Jews? The Jews of that time were a real pain in the neck to the Romans and, with the Sicarii dragging anyone off the street for an unplanned circumcision (Sicarius, Iscariot), I'm sure lots of "religions" wanted to give the Jews a message to elevate them above their violent tendencies. Well, they didn't have time to accomplish their mission. Jewish War1, Jewish War 2, and that was it, the last straw. The Romans kicked them out of Jerusalem, maybe Judea, and out they stayed for 2,000 years until the nation of Israel was created.

So, I think the apostles, Gnostics, were sent out to give the Jews a Jewish story to make that area of the world more peaceful. Pax Romana, the beliefs by those who'd experienced a Mystery ritual (which Paul called his religion), Gnostic theology.... Lots of people looking at Judea wanted it to change.