Posted: Jan 31, 2012 12:48 pm
Rick wrote:
It certainly is a “shambolic fiasco”, nunnington - a natural consequence of the way Christianity developed out of numerous competing factions?
I can't quite follow your logic here. Are you saying that the mission of Jesus is shown to be a failure, because there were different Christian factions? How does that follow?
I'm not a historian, so I would hesitate to draw any conclusions vis a vis HJ or MJ. Theologically, the failure of the mission has been of great importance, but that does not really seem to have implications as to historical veracity.