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> On Aug 6, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> As I recall, Emerson said that Jesus was the only person in history to
>> appreciate humanity fully enough because he thought he was God.
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> If that were true that's what he would have been charged with--claiming to
> be a god, not merely a king.
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not if the people charging him didn't get it. this is partly to do with the "son of god" language, which is the king in the psalms.
on the other hand, our main sources are the gospels, which are not exactly reliable historical records.