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About this Book:
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This book is a skeptic’s search for the historical Jesus and the origins of Christianity. The authors have concluded that the Marcan historical Jesus is a pagan literary fiction derived from the Greco-Roman tradition with material from the Jewish Scriptures providing Jewish dress for a pagan tale. Mark is a creation of the early church.
Paul presents a different view of Jesus. The source of Paul’s divine and ahistorical Jesus is found in the pagan mysteries, gnosticism, and the philosophy of Stoic-Cynicism. A wing of the Pauline mystery religion (the Marcan church) historicized his spiritual Christ, in the process creating the gospel of Mark, turning the divine Christ into an historical human being.
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