On rereading your question, I almost get the impression that you are asking if any of this is explicitly in Jesus' teachings.
Did He teach that He was/is God?
Did He teach that He would die?
Did He teach what the importance of that death would be?
Did He teach that He would resurrect?
Did He teach what the importance of that resurrection would be?
Was this all a clever theological invention by Paul, as some have suggested?
Or are you just asking if God is just a bloodthursty figment invented by a bunch of primitive ex-Egyptians in the desert after they ceceded from slavery there?
What exactly are you asking?
e-dogg,
On rereading your question, I almost get the impression that you are asking if any of this is explicitly in Jesus' teachings.
Did He teach that He was/is God?
Did He teach that He would die?
Did He teach what the importance of that death would be?
Did He teach that He would resurrect?
Did He teach what the importance of that resurrection would be?
Was this all a clever theological invention by Paul, as some have suggested?
Or are you just asking if God is just a bloodthursty figment invented by a bunch of primitive ex-Egyptians in the desert after they ceceded from slavery there?