When I speak of the "Jesus" of the NT being a "fictional character"...

I'm speaking about the "miraculous" Jesus.

You know...
The guy they say was...
--Born of a virgin...
--Walked on water...
--Calmed the Storms...
--Fed the multitudes with a couple of Fishwich snackin' packs...
--Healed the sick, lame, deaf and blind...
--Raised the dead...
And...
--Rose from the dead himself.

THAT's the Fictional Creation.

The REAL Jesus was Just a Man.
He wasn't God.
And...
He had NO Magic Powers.

What he DID Have was...
The Blood lines of both...
-- The Zadokite Priesthood...
AND...
-- The Royal Davidian Monarchy.

Jesus, the MAN...
Was the Priest/King of the Essenes.
That's all.

But...
DID the Essenes actually follow through...
With the Engineered Birth of their Eagerly Anticipated Messiah...?

Well, IF Jesus, the MAN, Actually Existed...
THEN...
The only thing that makes ANY Sense is that...
YES... They DID.

However...
If we're to go by the extant record...
And...
If we're going to dismiss anything even remotely connected to Christianity...
Then...
That's a pretty fair-sized "IF" we're talking about.

On the other hand...
If we are willing to work WITH the Christian Record of the Destruction...
Of all texts deemed to be "heretical" BY the Gentile Church of Rome...
In Conjunction With the texts of Qumran and Nag Hammadi...
As well as the Ancient Historians...
Then...
We've got a fairly reasonable basis...
To conclude that...
Jesus, the Merely Mortal, Priest/King...
-- DID Exist...
And...
That he MUST Have Been...
-- An Essene.

Either way...
Whether or not Jesus, the Merely Mortal, Jewish Priest/King actually existed...
Makes absolutely NO difference to ANYONE Today...
IF...
By making a "difference"...
We are talking about "Eternal Salvation".

The "difference" is perceived...
ONLY by those members of the Cult...
Who refuse to accept reality.
And...
Through any actions they may take...
In their misguided efforts...
To "protect" the precepts of...
-- Their erroneous "faith".

-PRev1-

President Barrack Hussein Obama

-- Nobel Peace Prize, 2009 --
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
-- George Orwell, "1984" --

"If you suddenly think Stephen Colbert is truly right wing, that's when I would worry."
-- Neuropsychologist Katherine Rankin.