Was Jesus A Twin?

Was Jesus Christ a twin? Christian theologians and theo-polemicists have long been consumed with debate over the nature of Jesus.

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For Muslims, the matter is simple: Jesus was a Prophet of God, a mortal who did not die on this Earth but was taken into safe haven by God, but the world will witness his Second Coming when - as a mortal - Jesus will inevitably die.

But for Christians the story is much more complicated: Jesus is supposed to be both human and divine at the same time. Jesus is supposed to have been crucified and but then resurrected (this is where Christians get their notion of 'Born Again'), once again rising the question of mortality vs. divinity. Many Christians grapple with the issues that remain unresolved by the Church and churches.

Here's an interesting theory (I don't believe it, but is it just an interesting fictitious story) by an atheist to explain the whole mortal death and divine resurrection which serves as the Christian narrative:

Philip Pullman addresses the apparent separateness of his subject’s divinity and humanity in a far more provocative way. Brought up by a clerical grandfather, Mr Pullman is a declared adversary of organised Christianity and is best known for his bestselling children’s trilogy, “His Dark Materials”. As he tells the Gospel story, Mary did not have one son but twins—a gifted but pious and humble one called Jesus and his more calculating and sophisticated brother, Christ. Observing his modest sibling, Christ concludes that the story needs to evolve in certain ways if the wandering faith-healer’s work is to become the basis of a world religion. In the end Christ colludes with his brother’s death and helps, directly and indirectly, to construct a new narrative about his resurrection. When the disciples meet their risen master, it is really Christ they are encountering, not his twin, Jesus.

This would not be a bad movie. It is blasphemous for Christians and Muslims, of course. But it is certainly creative.