Open debate: What does Jesus teach?

[Purplundy]

So clearly, if there was any collaboration in early Christianity, it failed. No skeptic that I'm aware of is making any claim that there was such an attempt.

I wasn't out to prove that the Gospels were true. I was pointing out that the evidence suggests that some real-world event prompted the inception of Christianity. That some semblance of Jesus Christ walked the earth and those who listened to him walked away with their own interpretation of his work.
Whichever interpretation of Jesus makes the cut is up in the air as far as I'm concerned.

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“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person." Matthew 5:38-39

That command isn't mandated in the OT, it's likely that the Pharisees (those guys that Jesus hated) came up with it.

"If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise." Exodus 21:22-25