One theme that could be taken away from Crossan’s description of Jesus is that he wasn’t exactly the immortal messiah that performed physical miracle, but an extraordinary religious student whose moral attachment and divine understanding of human interaction drove him to act towards revolutionary social reconstruction. To undertake the responsibilities he enlisted to himself and to his followers, Jesus subscribed to a certain understanding of the world in which philosophers or religious scholars before him had most likely thought of before. Jesus’ actions are a reflection of free will’s possibly imperative influence on human relationships and their potential for absolute cooperation. This involves acting under certain moral criteria which in this case is a universal principle of justice and morality much like principles of deontology. The thing that makes Jesus so extraordinary is his ability to take the principles in Judaic text and assure that himself and his people are acting upon such to their fullest significance. Jesus is an incredible example of the improved and elaborated product of a past idea or way of doing things. This Theme is also found throughout the evolution of music composition, art composition, social construction and possibly even the manifestation of life itself.
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