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Old 08-06-2011, 10:54 AM   #103 (permalink)
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Jesus' divinity wasn't established until the Council of Chalcedon in 491, before that he was most often considered to be just a prophet alongside Moses, Jacob etc. So I doubt Jesus ever claimed to be the Son of God during his lifetime.
That only shifts the blame, it makes Jesus no more or less likely to have been the son of god, and the parallel between the earlier stories as we know them, and the image of Jesus we have today, remains the same - Oddly, surprisingly similar.
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