The most effective way of passing on their messages about what the gods want from humans, was that of empowering the 'gods' to assume human-form. As has been the claim for the personified Jesus Christ.
Whom, we are told, was 'the Son of God', having been born as a result of a brief and illicit encounter between 'god' and Joseph's fiancee, Mary.
Thus was Jesus Christ, if he really existed at all, would have been, at least, in the tradition of the ancient Greeks, a demi-god.
This ability of the gods to personify themselves seems to be an attribute of all theistic religions, whether it is focused on monotheism or polytheism.
In the case of the story about Christ's personification, we could argue that both the account of his 'conception' and his 'burial' and resurrection are mysterious and fraught with moral and practical paradoxes.
For example, the morality of 'God' having a child with another man's wife, and the practicality of Christ's body having apparently come back to life and ascending up to 'heaven.'
Although the Bible has clearly stated that humans cannot go to heaven in classical human form; such as flesh and blood.
Yes, of course there is, as far as I recall, no mention in the Bible of anyone having seen Christ coming out of the sepulchre and floating up into the hemisphere.
The belief that he had done so seems to be based on nothing more than deductive reasoning, with us having been told that his body was not in the sepulchre when someone looked into it on the third day.
And, with there having been no body, it was assumed that 'he had arisen from the dead and ascended into heaven.' This, of course, is no proof that that is what occurred, though it has become a fundamental belief of Christianity.
To be continued!
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