My whole take on religion is that you learn but only in pieces. I can't say why, I haven't been that patient yet. ^_^ Did it ever occur to anyone here that firstly you're trying to put a factual face on something with no reliable factual documentation to show for it (IE: life and origin of Christ and his ideal)? I see it as unimportant as there is (to me anyway) some form of divine force at work in things. There is too much structure to the world we live in, and that's not taking into account the universe blah blah zoom out as many times as you'd like. Also nothing passes away in nature, things change and things move in cycles, but there is never a once and for all cease to be for anything. I tend to think of spirits the same way, we change form and shape and size and colour an infinite number of times but we never just cease to be. The very act of creation would become meaningless then, there would be no lasting effect to the creation other than one hell of a lot of beautiful corpses. Last thing anyone wants to contemplate is god questioning his/her/its/their purpose... Just something to mull over,
Cyrus