Shit. What The Hell. Jesus Never Existed

[robvalue]

Robvalue's personal checklist of doom

Let's see who agrees with me on these points.

1) Is Jesus of Nazareth, as written in the bible, a real person?

No.

2) Was there an actual person called Jesus of Nazareth who it could have been based on?

No.

3) Was there anyone alive at the appropriate time who could very roughly correlate on a few points of the story?

Most likely hundreds.

4) Did the gospel authors intend to write a historically accurate account?

No.

5) Did they intend to base the story, at least in part, on a single historical figure?

Unclear. It's certainly possible, and could be seen to add a certain amount of credibility.

5) a) If yes, could they be reasonably sure that the oral stories passed over several decades (however accurate) were about a single person and not several rolled into one?

No.

6) Were the gospel authors in the business of making things up and/or believing obviously mythical stories?

Yes.

7) In addition to any actual historical figure, did they draw inspiration from "Celestial Jesus"?

Unclear, but somewhat likely. The similarity between Jesus and many previous mythical figures is striking also.

8) How much of the biblical Jesus account is fiction/untrue/distorted into myth?

Unclear. The authors are so incredibly unreliable, and their sources so bad (not to mention the following years of errors and edits), that I'd put this as somewhere between 70% and 99%.