He's the man from earth.

She writes...
She writes about a "he" for the first time. She's excited, Don't bother.

So 'He' is a man from earth. A man who's lived for 14000 years. He is a Cro-Magnon caveman who survives untill the present day. He has seen the world deepen into a warmer planet from the cold sphere that it once used to be. As a cavemen, he saw his three generations die but he lived. It was sometime around 35 where his aging stopped. The herd was worried, they thought he was sucking up the souls of the other men and living his own. (The famous vampire theory). They chased him away from the herd. He moved on, towards the setting sun, exactly what he did the next whole century. Back in the 15th century, he had a chance to sail with Christopher Columbus. He was also one among the many who believed that columbus was a nut job when he argued the world was spherical and not rectangular. He was sometimes afraid that when they reach some farthest land (the edge of the rectangle) , they were going to tip off and fall into the vast space. He grew as the civilisation grew. Ideas changed, people started growing food instead of gathering them, raising animals instead of hunting them, fishing. Growth. Civilisation.

He moved on to be Jacques Borne, a good friend of Van Gogh. He realised that he had only 10 years to survive in a group after which people would start noticing that he wasn't aging. He fashioned John as his name. He moved on from one group to another learning languages wherever he went, living only 10 years and moving on.
John was once a Sumerian for 2000 years, then a Babylonian under Hammurabi, and finally in his quest towards the east became a disciple of Gautama Buddha. It is under Buddha he learnt many many philosophies of life. Buddha always knew there was something about John. John was a true disciple and stayed with Buddha untill his death, after which 'He' moved on. Changing names, sometimes faking his own death, pretending to be his own son. He simply lived.

John never believed in one religion. He had seen SO many of them. As a cavemen, he remembers looking up always wondering someone up there was creating all of this down here. But, as he moved from one civilisation to another, he refused to believe in an Omnipresent all-knowing God. Kings were God's , Stones were God's , Nature was God. Everyone everywhere had(has) a new version of God.
Did he know any Biblical figure ? Was he one of 'em ? Yes.
Guessing Moses ? No. Moses was just a myth crafted after a Syrian mythological figure. The Bible text? large parts of fairytales and myths with a touch of Hebrew. John knew this. The world was shattered with the new rising Kings, War and threat beleaguered. He had enough. He wanted to change. He was the man who taught the people the teachings of what he had learnt in his hardships, his life and people started following him, worshipping him. And...
He was Christ.

(No offence intended to any religion or any beliefs. Only believers read on. )

Jesus/John wasn't nailed to a cross. He was tied to it. He never died , but merely stopped his breath and controlled the body processes, something that he had long learnt in India (Yoga, it is). They thought he was dead. Put him inside the cave, and when he tried to escape without being noticed, little did he know that there were followers still waiting outside. Thus , Jesus was resurrected. He saw the Bible take forms from the Old Testament to the New. The OT according to John is a book that sells fear and guilt but he was glad that the NT was written with a positive touch, with more of good ethics to follow. John was only committed to teach the people of what he learnt in his life, his philosophies and spread goodwill. Even, Jesus failed !

He lives, lives to this day to see how the world has rapidly succumbed to the human desires. HE moves on. He is one among us. He could be a farmer, a scientist, a professor, a doctor, an archeologist, Anything. John can not go back to where he was, everything has changed.

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( As scripted in Jerome Bixby's "The man from Earth" , Nov 2007 release.)