JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON : SUPPOSE THEIR IS REALLY LIFE AFTER DEATH? PART 4.
The most effective way of passing on their messages about what the gods want from humans, was that of empowering the 'gods' to assume human-form. As has been the claim for the personified Jesus Christ. Whom, we are told, was 'the Son of God', having been born as a result of a brief and illicit encounter between 'god' and Joseph's fiancee, Mary. Thus was Jesus Christ, if he really existed at all, would have been, at least, in the tradition of the ancient Greeks, a demi-god. This ability of the gods to personify themselves seems to be an attribute of all theistic religions, whether it is focused on monotheism or polytheism. In the case of the story about Christ's personification, we could argue that both the account of his 'conception' and his 'burial' and resurrection are mysterious and fraught with moral and practical paradoxes. For example, the morality of 'God' having a child with another man's wife, and the practical