Prismattic comments on Mere Messiahs - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Prismattic 14 November 2011 05:13:29AM 5 points [-]

The Christ myth depicts Christ as being God-incarnate suffering in human-format, and therefore suffering in precisely the same way that humans would suffer.

On a historical note, this is true for Orthodox Christianity; not true for monophysitism (and still relevant in, say, the Armenian church).