Note 4 — Chapter XX · THE GROUND CLEARED FOR THE MYTH THEORY
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The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the Kingdom of God, who founded the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth, and died to give His work its final consecration, never had any existence. He is a figure designed by rationalism,4 endowed with life by liberalism, and clothed by modern theology in an historical garb....