... love. The Gospels show that not once during his Galilean ministry did Jesus say a single word to suggest that he was the Messiah, the one who would liberate Israel. Endo quotes Stauffer as saying: The fundamental and incontestable fact is that the idea of being the "Messiah" can be found nowhere in the collection of the sayings of Jesus [i.e., nowhere in ... at the same time he was truly divine. I had always thought that while he was human, being divine must have erased any doubts Jesus ever had, almost like he had a direct line to God in which he could receive all the answers. After re...

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