Topic: The Mystery of Jesus
As most of you probably know, there is a good amount of controversy over whether the one known as Jesus was a real person.
And reading in the metaphysical texts about this, we get a variety of versions of this story. For example, Seth said that Jesus existed as three personages, and that none of them died on the cross; Ra said that Jesus was an enlightened healer who incarnated with the plan of martyrdom, implying that he did indeed die on the cross. The C's say that Jesus' powers and understanding came from his total and complete faith in his connection to a higher source (which according to them was in 6D and that the C's themselves were involved in that). I don't know whether they have addressed the question of whether he died on the cross.
On the other hand, we have the mystic Neville Goddard, a writer and lecturer in the 20's/30's, who maintained that the Bible was a symbolic drama, not intended to be taken literally, and that this included the character of Jesus. The many fantastical stories in the Bible such as
the travails of Job, Johah and the whale, etc., seem to bear this out.
Then there's books such as The Bible Fraud by Tony Bushby, which sets out to prove that Jesus never existed.
So many divergent points of view! I myself would like to think that Jesus was a real person and that he did possess a transcendent understanding and a mastery of the spritual and physical realms.
What do you guys think? Is there any way we can be sure Jesus was a real person whose character closely approximated the Biblical character?
Or do we have to go solely on our intuition?