>>24690169
First of all, you are nearly incomprehensible. I had to read your post 4 times just to understand that you are in fact trying to say something and not just stringing words together like a markov chain. I find it shocking that someone that comes to the LITERATURE board has such a poor grasp of the english language.

Secondly, your point SEEMS to be that Ehrman's claim that jesus was an apocaliptic preacher can't be true because that alone wouldn't get him crucified, to which I ask you AGAIN, point me to where Ehrman says Jesus' only activity was preaching the apocalyptic message.
AS PER EHRMAN'S WRITINGS, and as per the criteria you layed out, Ehrman believes Jesus travelled to Jerusalem in order to reach more people, got in trouble with the authorities and then got crucified. That alone should be explenation enough for most people, woah, a cult leader gets in trouble with the authorities, IMPOSSIBLE.
But, again, as per his writing, he thinks the gist of the biblical narrative about Jesus being accused of claiming to be the king of the jews was correct. He thinks this because he thinks the story of Jesus telling the apostles that they would each rule one of the 12 tribes of Israel likely goes back to the historical Jesus, on the grounds that if the story was made up later, they would not have Jesus promise something like this to Judas, as it demonstrates he lacks foresight. He argues that since they would be ruling the 12 tribes, who would be ruling over them? The messiah.
Ehrman believes Jesus wasn't planning a revolt, but rather thought the apocalypse THAT HE PREACHED ABOUT would bring in God's kingodom on earth, and in said kingdom he would be the messiah ruling Israel. This distinction would be academic at best to the romans, who would gladly crucify a troublemaker.

Explain to me what's "cherrypicked" about this narrative. That the historical Jesus was probably from nazareth, preached an apocalyptic message off the back of John the baptist's movement, hijacked the movement once he died or maybe even earlier, travelled to jerusalem to reach more people, still preaching an apocalyptic message, got in troubbe with the authorities and got killed. Explain where the contradiction is.

Sidenote:
>Telling of impeding doom doesn’t get you famous or crucified by Rome in 33AD
Explain john the baptist then.

I always wonder about these threads, do you guys miss the actual culture of places like newgrounds, or is it just pure unadulturated nostalgia for the specific games you played as a child with 0 unironic or "pure" appreciation for the genre as a whole?

I'm asking because if it's the former then what you might not realise is that itch.io is the modern equivalent, if you want to try these types of games, just made in engines that are actually designed for games, that's the place to be.

Anyway the best flash game series has to be henry stickman, that's clearly the one that has real staying power.