RE: Christians - What would you do if it were discovered Jesus never existed?
September 6, 2015 at 3:00 pm
OK, we are supposed to be more intelligent than ancient goat ropers. So get out a map of the eastern Mediterranean area that shows Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Israel.
The Paul character supposedly wrote letters to widely scattered places in Greece, Turkey, and Italy in the First Century. Now that could have happened. But what's extremely doubtful is that the recipients would have kept those letters intact and secure and made countless copies of them and collected all of them in one location. Remember, the vast geographical distances as well as the elapsed time. Throw in countless wars, natural disasters, pirates, thieves and so forth. Based on that the conclusion must be that the story is pure BS because it's simply not reasonable.
What we do know is that there was a new religion based upon a Jewish zombie who was supposedly the son of God that swept through the area. How that religion came to be is unclear but it did happen since there is historical evidence. But the idea that all of those alleged Pauline letters ended up in one collection is asinine. It's more likely that BS'ers wrote down some of the oral stories to give the religion a documented foundation. That's what the Islamic hadith writers did. They simply made up a lot of BS and put words in imaginary characters' mouths to legitimize the story.
So time passes and then the English story tellers decide to write all of the stories down in a single book around the year 700. And we ended up with what's called the Bible.
The Paul character supposedly wrote letters to widely scattered places in Greece, Turkey, and Italy in the First Century. Now that could have happened. But what's extremely doubtful is that the recipients would have kept those letters intact and secure and made countless copies of them and collected all of them in one location. Remember, the vast geographical distances as well as the elapsed time. Throw in countless wars, natural disasters, pirates, thieves and so forth. Based on that the conclusion must be that the story is pure BS because it's simply not reasonable.
What we do know is that there was a new religion based upon a Jewish zombie who was supposedly the son of God that swept through the area. How that religion came to be is unclear but it did happen since there is historical evidence. But the idea that all of those alleged Pauline letters ended up in one collection is asinine. It's more likely that BS'ers wrote down some of the oral stories to give the religion a documented foundation. That's what the Islamic hadith writers did. They simply made up a lot of BS and put words in imaginary characters' mouths to legitimize the story.
So time passes and then the English story tellers decide to write all of the stories down in a single book around the year 700. And we ended up with what's called the Bible.
