Interesting.
From the above, linked article:
So the famous painting by Michelangelo really was called, “The Penultimate Supper”.
It looks like Monty Python was right.
So Jesus was the Martian Manhunter?
This makes me even more convinced that the Bible was really just fan fiction.
LOL, a parchment version of Archive of Our Own … but I draw the line at Jesus/Thomas slash … there isn’t enough brainbleach in the world!:eek:
So, if God made man in his image, and Jesus is a shapeshifter, and God is Jesus, then we were all made in the image of a shapeshifter.
That’s really helpful.
I am Jesus!
Chimeras aren’t shapeshifters!
He shifted into the shape of a guy while making people, and shifted into the shape of an eel when making eels, and so on, and so forth, and platypus, amen.
Mmm. Makes me wonder what we would see in the stats section for Big J in a Role Playing Game handbook.
Trans Fat Og, formerly True Blue Jack, the Boner of Salvation
Hmph. Obi-Wan could do the same thing. Big deal!
The Force gives you power over weak minds. :dubious:
It’s an interesting text, but let’s keep this in perspective, folks; this is 1,200 years old. It’s as far removed from Jesus as we are from the Magna Carta.
I am a square. Wait, I am a triangle. Hold on, here’s the tricky one: I am an octogon!
“This is not the King of the Jews you seek…”
1,200 years is ‘ancient’?
And here I thought of Dream from Sandman.
Now, let’s see. If it dates back almost 1200 years, that’s some time after 813 CE. That makes it after Charlemagne was declared Emperor, so that’s early medieval, rather than ancient.
Describing it as Jesus fan fiction is apt. I don’t know how common it was, but I’ve heard of other medieval writing that added to the Jesus story. The one I can think of off hand is a story about His childhood. In that story, the other children in the neighborhood mocked his Mother, possibly for irregularities regarding his birth. He got angry and they all fell down dead. Then Mary came out and chided Him, and He resurrected them all.
No cites, I’m afraid. I probably picked it up in a Medieval Studies lecture, but can’t swear to it. It makes me not at all surprised by the new story, although I have to say that the shapeshifter bit is a fun addition.
Umm, if you’re making the case that we should discount this because the writers of that document were only as familiar with that event as we are with the Magna Carta, you might not be making the point that you want to be.
It’s settled, from now on my go-to will be “Jesus Shapeshifting Christ!”