Hegel suggests that in religion truth is discovered from outside of it, meaning that it is understood through ritual (Hegel 0000, 00). In the definition of positive religion the source of truth is unknown. The messenger is not what is important for Hegel, but it is the truth revealed that he is concerned with, "through whatever individual the truth may have been given, the external matter is historical, and this is indifferent to the absolute content and to itself, since the person is not the import of the doctrine" (Hegel 0000, 00). For Hegel what matters is that Christ was someone in history.