Jesus’ Saving Death Didn’t Come From Jesus
Words of Jesus were placed on his lips by later Christian storytellers who *themselves* believed that Jesus had been raised from the dead to bring about the salvation of the world. Jesus himself did not start Christianity. His preaching is not what Christianity is about, in the end. If his followers had not come to believe he had been raised from the dead, they would have seen him as a great Jewish prophet who had a specific Jewish message and a particular way of interpreting the Jewish scripture and tradition. Christianity would have remained a sect of Judaism. So what would Easter look like today?
