This is all starting to come back to me now. I've been talking about climate science and exposing climate truthers for too long and forgotten how into this stuff I used to be.
We have evidence of where the idea or precepts of a hellenized jewish messiah came from.
For example:
A big clue to the origins of tying the Greek philosophical idea of the 'Logos' with either a physical or 'spiritual' 'messiah' is found in the writings of the first century hellenized Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria:
The pivotal and the most developed doctrine in Philo’s writings on which hinges his entire philosophical system, is his doctrine of the Logos. By developing this doctrine he fused Greek philosophical concepts with Hebrew religious thought and provided the foundation for Christianity, first in the development of the Christian Pauline myth and speculations of John, later in the Hellenistic Christian Logos and Gnostic doctrines of the second century. All other doctrines of Philo hinge on his interpretation of divine existence and action. The term Logos was widely used in the Greco-Roman culture and in Judaism. Through most schools of Greek philosophy, this term was used to designate a rational, intelligent and thus vivifying principle of the universe. This principle was deduced from an understanding of the universe as a living reality and by comparing it to a living creature.
Ref:
https://www.iep.utm.edu/philo/#H11
To me, the gospel stories of a "Jesus" character seem to have been an invention to personify the Greek philosophical idea of the 'Logos" and tie it in with the Jewish messianic myths of the time.
Curious that Philo, who lived at the time of the supposed Jesus, never mentioned this Jesus messiah person who supposedly went all over the place creating miracles. Neither did the first century Jewish historian Josephus who wrote about the people and the very area where Jesus supposedly conducted his 'ministry'. The insertions by later a Christian zealot (probably Eusebius in the 4th century) are accepted as interpolations (pious fraud) by secular historians because they interrupt the flow of the surrounding text and are not consistent with the style of writing of Josephus.
