Originally Posted by JB3

you have a hymn supposedly written in the first years after the crucifiction and fragments from the gospel of John, and how does this prove your point and disprove mine?
I said religious figure of extreme importance.

My point is that with Christ in living memory the Jewish Nationalist zealots rose against the Romans, in a manner completely at odds with Christ's teachings and message.

I have no doubt that there were people in his time that deified him, so it seems that large numbers seem to have not regarded him as a deity until later on.

Greazzer and Larry would have us believe the liberals are deifying Obama even as we speak. Do we all believe that? nope.