I was fortunate enough to sit on the panel alongside experienced interfaith activists like Rabbi Or Rose, Valarie Kaur, Jen Bailey, and Chris LaTondresse (with whom I later, over a beer, debated about the existence of Christ).
And finally, as something of an afterthought, just as I pointed out that one could be agnostic about UFOs visiting Earth as a subset of being agnostic about life elsewhere in the universe (or you could believe in life elsewhere and be agnostic about visits), so you could be agnostic about the existence of Christ as a real person as a subset of atheism about god.
For Bultmann, the mythological elements are belief in the pre-existence of Christ, the three-layer universe (heaven, earth, and hell), miracles, ascension into heaven, demonology, and various other elements of the Judeo-Christian-Hellenistic world view.
The Christ myth theory, which questions the existence of Jesus, appeared in the 18th century.
Apollinaris denied the existence in Christ of a rational human soul, a position he took to combat Arianism.
As the editor lectures his friend on the non-existence of Jesus Christ, a foreigner appears, introducing himself as Professor W, and tells them what he insists is the true story of the meeting of Christ and Pontius Pilate.
History will probably sum up the first three years of Imitation of Christ's existence as a gantlet.
Luther also attacked the "enthusiasts" among the would-be reformers; at the colloquy of Marburg (1529), rejecting the teachings of Huldrych Zwingli, he proclaimed the existence of the real presence of Christ in the Lord's Supper with a literal est ("This is my body").
Throughout the previous year she had teetered on the verge of leaving the church, unsure of Christ's existence because negative things were happening in the world at such a mind-boggling clip.
Some scholars, such as William Empson, maintain that the poem also indicates that Donne seriously believed in separate planets and planes, and also the existence of more than one Christ – a belief that Donne later abandoned.
In its principles, La Luz del Mundo proclaims a belief in the existence of one God and in Jesus Christ, "Son of God and Savior of the world".
