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“Paul does not say what precisely had happened, but he tells the Corinthians the effect that it had on him (in a deliberate and completely justifiable plea for personal sympathy): he was so utterly overwhelmed, beyond any capacity to cope, that he despaired of life itself (1:8). He felt as though he had received the sentence of death in himself (1:9). This language—internalizing a death-sentence—sounds close to what we might call a nervous breakdown, and certainly indicates severe depression.”
― Resurrection Son of God V3: Christian Origins and the Question of God
― Resurrection Son of God V3: Christian Origins and the Question of God
“Napoleon once said, "What is history, but a fable agreed upon?" He smiled. "By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“Sophie, every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith—acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet … a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal.” “Not the Son of God?” “Right,” Teabing said. “Jesus’ establishment as ‘the Son of God’ was officially proposed and voted on by the Council of Nicaea.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“The introduction is formal, solemn, complex and controversial. It stands as a fifth witness to the original Easter events, alongside the accounts in the four gospels, and is thus of extraordinary importance for our present study. Bultmann, famously, criticized Paul for citing witnesses to Jesus’ resurrection, as though he considered it an actual event, instead of being merely a graphic, ‘mythological’ way of referring to the conviction of the early Christians that Jesus’ death had been a good thing, not a bad thing.”
― Resurrection Son of God V3: Christian Origins and the Question of God
― Resurrection Son of God V3: Christian Origins and the Question of God
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