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Jesus Christ. These words identify the most significant person in human history. Who is this person Jesus? Christians may identify Jesus as the one Yahweh promised, the savior who came to rescue all people from sin and from death. The whole Christian religion rest ....

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.... for, the miraculous and the supernatural, and to build a religion within the limits of reason alone. But it was with the German Enlightenment that the seeds of the biblical revolution were being sown. Under the influence of Deism, radical criticism of the fundamental beliefs of Christianity as enshrined in the gospel story of Jesus formed. Many theories arose pertaining to the belief of Jesus. Apparently, the first scholar to question whether Jesus actually existed was C. F. Dupuis in 1791. The origin of Jesus in a spontaneous, myth making process was asserted by A. Drews. For P. Alfani, Jesus is a projection originating in a social movement of slaves ....