Responding to a reader who asks her to consider the possibility that The Bible is true, Camille Paglia responds; "The New Testament was purposefully written as a point-by-point response to the Old Testament to prove that Jesus was indeed the Messiah whose arrival had been forecast for centuries." and also added "He (Jesus) was a performing artist with startling improvisational gifts. Whether or not he himself thought he was the Messiah is unclear." (Read Full Response Here).
I have only a couple of responses for Ms. Paglia:
1) I have never seen or heard Daivid Blaine or Criss Angel raise someone from the dead. So I'm not sure I would classify that under "performing artist w/ improvisational gifts". Also, had he just been a magician how would he keep his "bag of tricks", from his disciples. As we all know street performers require people to be "in on it" in order for the trick to be believable. If they were "in on it" (since they were routinely and actively involved in Jesus' miracles), why would they also give there life for something they knew was just an act?
2) I always find it intriguing when agnostics/atheists think they are throwing us Christians a bone by meagerly admitting that Jesus probably existed, while the possibility that Jesus did not exist is not seriously entertained by too many historians who made it past their sophomore year of college. Also, if you can admit that Jesus existed and accept the general circumstances of his death, then I would say it fair to say he did indeed believed himself to be the Messiah.
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