Mythicism 2: Carrier’s Obsolete Paradigm of Jewish Celestial Jesus Based On Fictional Historic Birth
The Celestial Sayer and the Egyptian Sahu: A Critique of Richard Carrier’s Obsolete Paradigm through the Lens of Massey, Williams, and Bernal Introduction: The Battle of the Models In recent discourse, specifically within the MythVision episode “Higher Consciousness & Jesus? Dr. Richard Carrier Responds,” Dr. Richard Carrier proposes a paradigm wherein the historical Jesus is a “celestial being” eventually “euhemerized” or pulled down to earth by later gospel writers. Carrier’s methodology—rooted in Bayesian probability and a deconstruction of traditional “Docetism”—seeks to replace the historical consensus with a model of visionary origins. However, when interrogated through the foundational works of Gerald Massey (A Book of the Beginnings, The Natural Genesis, Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World), Walter Williams (The Historical Origin of Christianity), and Martin Bernal (Black Athena), Carrier’s paradigm is revealed as a halfway house between the “Aryan Model” of history and a truly evolutionary mythography. While Carrier recognizes the non-historical nature of the Gospels, he remains tethered to a Greco-Roman and Judeo-centric matrix, systematically marginalizing the 10,000-year-old Egyptian foundation of the Christ-mythos.
——————————————————————————– Part 1: “Gnosticism” and the Revisionist Mirage 1.1 Carrier’s Claim Carrier argues that “Gnosticism” is a modern, misleading academic label for a diverse set of sects that did not view themselves as a cohesive movement. He further contends that “Docetism” (the belief that Jesus only appeared to be human) is an academic invention used to mask what were originally explicitly mythicist Christian sects who believed in a purely celestial Christ. …
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