I had never come across this “historical” argument before reading this post in this week - and had assumed this history as written didn’t exist. I’m grateful for the clarity and courage evident in your argument. If I may add a minor thought, to wit, the ancients knew all there was to know about semen, it was visible, and nothing about ovum as it was invisible. Thus, the male, and the male G’d, was the sole contributor to the following generation - poke a hole in the ground, insert seed, watered naturally, and you get life, the earth/female as incubator only. From there I assume the unquestioned reasoning of Jesus as Divine without reference to his humanity (except as sacrifice) followed as obvious consequence, as with the irrelevance of Joseph. Hence the “biological” proof of Christianity’s unique superiority was evident in the divinely-made human, the proof/basis for its theological grounding. Judaism was never a necessary consideration (his Jewish mother) in the understanding of his time, as it was irrelevant to his existence, or to his “native” identity. Thanks much.
I had never come across this “historical” argument before reading this post in this week - and had assumed this history as written didn’t exist. I’m grateful for the clarity and courage evident in your argument. If I may add a minor thought, to wit, the ancients knew all there was to know about semen, it was visible, and nothing about ovum as it was invisible. Thus, the male, and the male G’d, was the sole contributor to the following generation - poke a hole in the ground, insert seed, watered naturally, and you get life, the earth/female as incubator only. From there I assume the unquestioned reasoning of Jesus as Divine without reference to his humanity (except as sacrifice) followed as obvious consequence, as with the irrelevance of Joseph. Hence the “biological” proof of Christianity’s unique superiority was evident in the divinely-made human, the proof/basis for its theological grounding. Judaism was never a necessary consideration (his Jewish mother) in the understanding of his time, as it was irrelevant to his existence, or to his “native” identity. Thanks much.