It is interesting that the Bible views the dead as being unconscious, they know nothing. Fundamentalist Christian denominations like the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Seventh-day Adventists believe this. The human is the "soul". Interestingly enough, the Apostle Paul cannot seem to make up his mind about what happened to Jesus' body upon him being "resurrected". Religious Jews believe in a world "yet to come", yet historical and archeological research has implied that the early Hebrews didn't believe in the concept of an afterlife until very late. I have no problem believing in the concept of the historical Jesus. The four canonical gospels are not "historically accurate" documents. The four gospels are supposed to be like Jewish prophecies being historicized to illustrate the early Christians' beliefs that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ, the Messiah who was Yahweh's final prophet to announce the coming of Yahweh's kingdom and the "end of the world" as we have known it.
The historical Jesus at best was a rabbi within the Jewish religion and a faith healer who preached about the upcoming apocalypse. His message hardly had anything to do with "love" and "peace". Changes in religious thinking were abundant amongst Jews living in Palestine during the historical Jesus' lifetime. Jesus was only one of a few individuals, I believe, who claimed to be the Messiah at the time. He wouldn't have been seen as too much of an important person in terms of his apocalyptic rantings which were quite common for the time. How much do we know about him? Very little actually. The Biblical Jesus that we often hear about shares very little in common with the historical Jesus. Kind of like the legends that arose surrounding King Arthur. I'd encourage you to do your own research.
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