Quote Originally Posted by GHoSToKeR
On TV tomorrow night there's a show called 'The Real da Vinci Code'.. its basically exploring whether the claims made in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code are real or not. The books premis is basically that Jesus WAS real, but that he wasnt the son of God, he was only a politican/king, and the idea to make everyone believe he was the son of God was decided a long time after he died. I believe it.
That's definitely one view that some scholars support. There's one guy, I think I mentioned him before, who was a bishop of Lyons, France, around A.D. 100. Now, if the story of Jesus were true, he would surely know of it, right? What he says is actually pretty funny: he said that the real Jesus lived to be an old man, and that he never died on a cross. In fact, to him the concept of Jesus dyiing on a cross was almost funny, since he could never believe that the incarnation of God would die like a regular criminal... And this wasn't some pagan writer, he was a bishop, Irenaeus by name.