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Originally posted by Starlight View PostBut more recently, people who have been following anthropological research into religious visionary experiences, have suggested that you need to give much more credence to the possibility that it wasn't Jesus who founded the early Christians and instead it was the early Christians who invented Jesus via their religious visions which they seem to have been quite keen on. So in this reconstruction the start of the book of Acts where it portrays a bunch of cultists having the "Holy Spirit" descend on them and all starting to talk in tongues and have visions etc is where historical Christianity begins and those crazy cultists subsequently then went on to invent the contents of the gospels based on their visions including inventing Jesus.
It's a case of did a person named Jesus found Christianity, or did the early Christians invent a fiction spiritual figure named Jesus?
On the other hand, it's not controversial that the early Christians did attach importance to mystical experiences.
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