Who Was Jesus Really? - Part 9: The History of How Christ Became Christian

This part of the series explores the history of how Christ became Christianity--how Paul and other early church fathers pruned, standardized, and organized the great diversity of beliefs and communities that flowered in the first decades after Jesus's death; How a deep wisdom became a socially-enforced orthodoxy.
About this series:
Jesus Christ wasn't who almost anyone thinks he was. And his message is more important than almost anyone realizes.
What Christ embodied and taught transcends our neat categories, whether religious, scientific, or strictly historical.
This series puts Jesus in the largest possible perspective, revealing what he said about reality and our place in it.
Encompassing the historical, psychological, and the spiritual, this series frees our view of Jesus from both the dogma of the church and the skepticism of atheists.
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THIS IS PART 9
I recommend you watch the series in order.
Here's Part 1:
• Who Was Jesus Really? ...
Here's a link to Part 8:
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Find the entire essay on my blog at
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I look forward to seeing your comments and questions.
OTHER LINKS:
The Science Spell: Why Science Can Coexist With Spirituality:
Find it here:
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My second collection of essays, "Of Geometry & Jesus" goes broader in scope than "The Science Spell." Here I roam coyote-like across the imaginary borders between science, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, myth, religion, the supernatural, and our own direct experience of the world. Check it out here:
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I offer poetry for people don't read poetry and spiritual advice for me, and maybe you on my website here:
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Here's my author page on Amazon:
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Find Spiritual Aphorisms from my book, Wholeness in Pieces: Spiritual Aphorisms for Greater Life, available here:
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Read my blog, here:
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Music: "Panjab" - by Serge Quadrado
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Footnotes:
. Galatians 3:28
. Thomas Cahill 2000, Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (Random House Audio) [Audiobook] Ch. 4, 25:36
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