Tuesday theology

[cmdr_zoom]

I find myself curious about the (modern?) interpretation of Jesus' martyrdom that shifts ultimate responsibility to Jehovah, as a deliberate sacrifice and long-term bid for power. Was Superstar one of the originators of this idea, or did it just help popularize it?

As any student of the Kennedy administration will tell you, a dramatically dead messiah makes a better legend than a living, fallible and all-too-human prophet. (Likewise, I'm sure there's a brand of conspiracy theory out there which says that the assassination was arranged to preserve and immortalize the myth, at the expense of the man.)

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[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there's a brand of conspiracy theory out there which says that the assassination was arranged to preserve and immortalize the myth, at the expense of the man.

I've seen it asserted, in all apparent seriousness, that it was indeed arranged, for that very reason, by Kennedy himself, though fans of this theory are split as to whether it was history's most elaborate suicide by a sick man who was tired of the pain and wanted to secure his place in history, or history's most elaborate faked death by a man who wanted to spend the rest of his life incognito on a Third World beach.

[kireishojo.livejournal.com]

That interpretation has been in the church since the 2nd century at least. It comes more from the gnostic heresies and the manichiean heresy. But it has been there for quite a while although it has less sway in the orthodox churches because they put more emphasis on the incarnation of christ as the way salvation was gained. they say it was in the combining of the deity with a human that the possibility of repairing the damage done in the garden became possible.

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

You beat me to it. :)