When Jesus resurrected from the dead, why didn he simply…?
His purpose was our salvation, not to overthrow the Roman government. Firstly, I want to explain why legend is not an option because some people have a hard time distinguishing the difference between ‘legend’ and ‘Lord, lunatic, or liar.’ Craig Blomberg of Denver Seminary, one of the country’s foremost authorities on the biographies of Jesus, says that the Gospels were so early that these accounts of Jesus’ life cannot be explained away as legendary inventions. “Within the first two years after his death,” Blomberg said, “significant numbers of Jesus’ followers seem to have formulated a doctrine of the atonement, were convinced that he had been raised from the dead in bodily form, associated Jesus with God, and believed they found support for all these convictions in the Old Testament.” A study indicates that there was nowhere enough time for legend to have developed and wiped out a solid cor of historical truth. So the question whether Jesus was mere legend can lay at rest. I think it
