Jesus as a percentage

[Longhorn]

Jesus Christ Bio

WARNING: may contain trace amount of truth

[Lucanus]

I'm only looking for very rough estimates I'm not going to draw any detailed conclusions here, it's just out of interest.

69% with bondage.

Could be more rough tho

[robvalue]

Hey rob... have you read Jefferson's bible?
Here's a PDF (fun starts at page 27):
http://uuhouston.org/files/The_Jefferson_Bible.pdf

That there represents the maximum I'd be willing to to accept of that guy's life... and some of that seems like an echo of other people's lives also written about around that time.

No I've not read that, I'll check it out, cheers

I'll accept answers of higher or lower than my percentages They are probably a bit generous.

[abaris]

Yeah, I agree. I'm not expecting an exact correlation with any specific events, just a rough idea of how much of a real character is buried in there somewhere.

I tend to think, a real person or persons fueled the stories. It's often that way with legends, as can be seen with Homer and his writings about the Trojan war. There was a war or wars. But that doesn't mean Hector fought Achill or that Apoll swooped down to kill Achill. It doesn't even mean that Hector or Achill even existed.

The important thing is to keep in mind how these stories came to be. They were told and retold along the trade routes. And as it is with campfire legends, things are embellished to add more drama, things are left out, things are told in a different way.

What we always have to keep in mind is how authors went about their business back then. The work ethics were totally different, even if they reported on historical events. It wasn't frowned upon to embellish a story, since the goal was to create something inspiring for their generation.

[robvalue]

Right, yeah. My pet theory at the moment is that they were slinging an agenda, writing a story, but decided to throw in a supposedly real person to add some credibility. I've read a bit about ideas of them "humanising" other mythologies, rewriting them as a man. So this kind of brings the historical and the mythical Jesus together.

It's always going to be a mystery. The thing is, even if the gospel authors fully intended to write about a real person, they had no first hand sources about the person so it's conceivable that person wasn't real anyway. Or perhaps more likely, he was already an out-of-proportion legend based on a teeny little man. But really, they didn't know for sure. They couldn't. Figuring out their intentions is the hardest part, and they were clearly happy making shit up so I certainly don't trust their integrity.

[Minimalist]

There is no historical evidence for a single, distinct, figure at all.  There is much evidence that fucking jesus is just a myth.

[abaris]

There is no historical evidence for a single, distinct, figure at all.  There is much evidence that fucking jesus is just a myth.

There is no evidence, period. Neither for his existence or his non erxistence. I would be hard pressed on how you would go about proving a negative anyway.

[Minimalist]

Study other mythology of that age and see how the godboy compares.

Hint:  Same shit - different language.