Jesus Apocalyptic Prophet

This rationalistic view of the bible insists that events and “miracles” of the New Testament were in fact misunderstandings of science and natural laws at the time when science wasn’t understood. Instead the myth is to teach a religious meaning through interpretation. Myths were religious stories that could happen but didn’t really. Science hadn’t been used for reasoning yet and methods for understanding things like sickness and natural catastrophes were always linked to a supernatural source. Each book tells basically the same story in conflicting ways. The birth, life and death of Jesus is told but yet every Gospel varies from the other in story. Things were labeled a miracle because the concepts to understand these things were yet available. These conflictions bring up questions of fact, authenticity, and reality.

Biblical stories vary from author to author, especially within the 4 Gospels.

Myths were introduced by a German philosopher David Strauss.

Natural histories evolved during the enlightenment period as a logical method of understanding ancient scriptures. lained that events in the bible as actual truths, things that have happened for fact and by word.