Was he the divine Son of God, sent to earth to free us of our Original Sin? Was he a mortal man who became enlightened? Or a regular dude who didn’t? Was he a fictional construct—a convenient grab bag of Middle Eastern solar gods and mystery cults? Or was he a cipher, an allegory cloaking a mystic’s initiatory instructions? Was he really ever here at all? So much blood and ink have been spilled trying to litigate these questions—typically with far more certainty and less curiosity than is helpful. But what if we’ve all been fundamentally missing the point in our striving for certainty, pro or
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