J. Warner May 27, 2016 Jesus

As a skeptical non-believer, I was willing to grant that someone named Jesus actually lived in the early first century. I was also willing to grant that he might have been a wise, charismatic teacher. But I firmly believed that the supernatural aspects of Jesus’ character were untrue; a late mythology that reflected the consistent distortions of the early stories. So as I began my investigation, I fully expected to find evidence of this transition. I expected to find early documentation that would describe Jesus simplistically in a manner that was consistent with his true human nature rather than his late exaggerated Divinity. But the earliest Christian documents displayed a “High Christology” related to Jesus. The earliest writers were firmly committed to the Deity of Jesus:

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