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30 Post author: jwhendy 04 April 2011 03:25AM

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Comment author: jwhendy 04 April 2011 09:09:05PM 0 points [-]

The obvious fourth choice is that Jesus was deified after his death, and that the parts where Jesus appears to claim unambiguously to be divine were tacked on as the tradition built up around him...

And off to the races on whether the scriptures are historically trustworthy, the "four facts" of WLC, etc. I do see your point, but the pill wouldn't go down very easily :)