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Jesus from Outer Space

What the Earliest Christians Really Believed About Christ

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Jesus from Outer Space

By: Richard Carrier
Narrated by: KC Gleason
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The earliest Christians believed Jesus was an ancient celestial being who put on a bodysuit of flesh, died at the hands of dark forces, and then rose from the dead and ascended back into the heavens. But the writing we have today from that first generation of Christians never says where they thought he landed, where he lived, or where he died.

The idea that Jesus toured Galilee and visited Jerusalem arose only a lifetime later, in unsourced legends written in a foreign land and language. Many sources repeat those legends, but none corroborate them. Why? What exactly was the original belief about Jesus, and how did this belief change over time?

In Jesus from Outer Space, noted philosopher and historian Richard Carrier summarizes for a popular audience the scholarly research on these and related questions, revealing in turn how modern attempts to conceal, misrepresent, or avoid the actual evidence calls into question the entire field of Jesus studies--and present-day beliefs about how Christianity began.

©2020 Richard Carrier (P)2025 Pitchstone Publishing Bible Study Bibles & Bible Study Christianity History Middle East
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Good summary of Carriers main objections and basis for mythicism. If you take the time to listen the idea of a non existent historic Jesus doesn't ends up being the natural conclusion given all of the facts.

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If there is any criticism it would be the the title, I would have called it, The Celestial Jesus. Having read all of Carrier's work and On the Historicity of Jesus 10 times now, and read most of the source material, I feel qualified to say that this concise volume with updated argumentation is a devastating attack on party line Christology. I have no doubts in 10-20 years time most scholarship will doubt the existence of Jesus, this will mostly be due to Carrier's works, these books are a must read and pivotal for anyone in scholarship.

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