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Every so often, a sincere question opens a doorway: not to argument, but to understanding. One of the most important questions in the study of early Christianity is this: How do we determine the earliest, most historically grounded understanding of who Jesus was? Historians don’t answer this by starting with later creeds or theological conclusions…
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