WWLD everyone here should know where I stand on this one.My response is an emphatical No!! Jesus did not exist for the following reasons.I agree with LukeC that Jesus is an off shoot of the Gnostic messiah.There is no evidence of his existence anywhere neither physical (since he ascended to heaven) nor historical.Outside of the bible there is no real record of the exploits of this so called god man.Jesus stands in the same line as all the other mythological gods in my mind there is no difference.His story was not set to print till at least 50-70 years after his alleged crucifixion so the entire New Testament is based on oral traditions and hearsay.There is not one eyewitness account of Jesus in the entire NT bible and the fact that his story is so contradictory in the NT gospels specifically Matthew,Mark,Luke,and John gives me the impression that these stories were made up and carried on as tradition by the locals.The words attributed to Christ cant be his since none of the authors were there with him as he spoke them.
Religion in general is and should always in my opinion be given its proper place in lilterature as nothing more than mythology.
Religion in general is and should always in my opinion be given its proper place in lilterature as nothing more than mythology.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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