Hypotheses about Jesus
Among well-behaved people, there is too much about Jesus doesn’t say much. When it comes to sex, money, death, Jesus is one of those topics they can make an ordinary conversation uncomfortable.
This is a consequence of many centuries of false religious sentiment. Enough of those pictures representing the sentimental Jesus of Nazareth, blond and with beautiful blue eyes. Enough of the first communions presented like “Jesus is coming to your heart.”
This name does not sound wrong to people who have a taste perhaps too sweet. And it remains an incurable taboo. Someone has graduated from history without touching on the existence of an unknown Jewish carpenter who broke the record of the world in two: before Christ, after Christ. Another is graduated from ancient literature and knows everything about the Greek-Romanesque myth. He studied it from the original texts, but never encountered the Greek text of the New Testament. It’s weird: the counting of time ends with Jesus, and from
it comes out. And yet it remains as if hidden. Either he is ignored, or he has been married for a long time known. Even priests, popes, and pastors don’t talk much about him. It is true that every Sunday, I point to him in millions of sermons, discourses, and speeches. But very often, it seems that believing in him is not for them, no problem. Instead, it is a given fact. Complex architectures are constructed over the Gospels, but few descend into the basements with those who hear him, find out if there are really the basics. Few strive to test whether there is still a solid cornerstone on which – as they claim – their faith and their ecclesial communities stand.
He is the only person with whom, in human history, God’s name was immediately united. But unheard of for this “outrage” many have become accustomed to. They take it for granted. As if they were (someone remarked callously) poisoned with incense.
There is a “secret” statement attributed to Jesus in one apocryphal gospel: “He who wonders, he will rule.” However, many as if they had lost the gift of wonder. And yet a public opinion poll showed that out of a hundred Sixty-four Italians consider Jesus to be “the most interesting personality of history. “Garibaldi and Martin Luther King are second and third by far. Then .follows. Gandhi and finally, Marx. 1
Many respondents said that they would like to know more about Jesus and especially something reliable. However, they do not know whom to look at they have to turn around. Newspapers and the general cultural public deal with institutions (Vatican, church …), but they do not know the faith itself, or they ignore. The culture of believers, in turn, favors the ascetic exercises and meditations on Jesus, but very often as we are mentioned, he doesn’t pay enough attention to this amazing historical one issue.
So few would seem to be dealing with the problem of Jesus. However, this is not true. The bibliography of Jesus is, in fact, as comprehensive as the ocean, and it is still tumultuous. In the 20th century, about sixty-two volumes were written about Jesus. And at the National Library in Paris, which is a mirror of western culture, the motto Jesus is in second place in the number of index cards. The password comes first God. The discussion of Jesus has been jealously protected for centuries hunting ground of academic personalities from the ranks of clergy and laity (often former clergy). These are the experts who have produced and continue to produce the thousands of volumes mentioned, while refuting each other’s opinions in endless, highly learned discussions. 1 Poll organized by DOXA in the spring of 1974.
For the common people, the books remain prayer and popularizing, often harmlessly promotional in nature. Thus, many do not know that all the hypotheses about Jesus already were told that all objections had been refuted and again established and rebutted indefinitely. Every word The New Testament has been reviewed a thousand times. Among the texts of all times and of all countries, this text has been the most studied, with incredible toughness. A barely faint echo gets into the unprofessional’s ear of this discussion. The dispute has been going on for two thousand years, but in recent years three centuries later, there was a shift in its targeting. While up to In the 18th century, the controversy took place within Christianity (the question of “orthodoxy” and “heresy”), and from the 18th century onwards, non-Christian criticism emerged. The holy books on which faith rests are denied in its history. He wonders what is up to now considered the same even in the sharpest and often bloody one’s controversy, namely the belief in the special relationship of the man Jesus to God, faith in him as Christ, the Messiah.
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