(August 2, 2015 at 6:36 am)Nestor Wrote: [quote='Cato' pid='1010800' dateline='1438392026']
Why is it hard for you to understand that the earliest sects of Christianity were inspired by a man named Jesus who appeared to some as a sage and to others a lunatic, immortalized by a number of his more educated followers who compiled different histories inspired by his teachings and the embellished anecdotes about his life and death, their primary motive being to reveal their theological dogmas, which centered around this person, to the popular masses in the form of sacred texts?
This is literally the same thing that has happened over and over and over again even into our own day.
You're barking up the wrong tree as we are essentially saying the same thing. I have never claimed that a Jesus did not exist nor that this person wasn't the basis for the later myth. What I have stated is the this person's actual existence is irrelevant and understanding that the figure as portrayed in the Bible most assuredly did not exist and is mythological.
