If the historical Jesus was simply human, would YOU be a Christian ?

EdenOne

I've been reading a lot lately about the historical Jesus, and the latest archaeological findings and what a comparative, horizontal, reading of the 4 canonic gospels actually do tell us about the historical Jesus and his teachings. Pick your side, but let me ask you this, because that's the core question I have been asking myself lately:

If the historical Jesus wasn't the Son of God, but simply a human prophet with no previous super-human existence, hence, merely the "son of man", with very appealing teachings, but NO PREVIOUS SUPER-HUMAN EXISTENCE, hence, not "Son of God" as we commonly believe as JW's, WOULD YOU STILL BE A CHRISTIAN? And if so, on what grounds?

Eden

designs

That's what the Jews expect.

cofty

If Jesus actaully said the things the gospels claimed he did, he was an egotistical, family-destroying, tinfoil-hat wearing, cult-leader.

confusedandalone

If the Jesus that is supposed to have existed said the things in the bible then yes, he had some form of mental disorder. I mean Imagine the guy on the corner we see holding signs saying that "the end is coming". We look at the guy like a lunatic and we hope he gets picked up by the police... that is who Jesus was, the guy standing on the corner with a sandwich board saying the end is near.

However I can garauntee that people would still follow him...