Irrelevant in my opinion.
Jesus alone cannot make the Bible accurate.
The Bible alone cannot make the history of Jesus accurate.
As long as those two remain true, I really couldn't give a shit, because there's no point in trying to find out exactly what a person as like unless it can amount to something.
People might care for the sake of history, which I understand, but as an Atheist I would say, what would it matter?
Okay, honest opinion though, I think he existed only because I couldn't care enough to do the research, and that seems to be the general scientific consensus.
I think the stories were heavily fabricated, and 95% stolen from other previous religions, there are so many parallels to stories told centuries before that there is no possible way even half of what's claimed could be true. The parallels are so ridiculously clear-cut, and obvious, even if you took all those similar stories and changed 50% of the common traits between Jesus and [x] you STILL couldn't claim there was no similarity.
Even THEN, just take one different thing that is supposedly "parallel to Jesus" from any other ancient religion, and then combine all those traits, and you could recreate the story piece by piece. This is why I nicknamed Christianity because of it's account of Jesus "The Religion of Recycled Ideas" because at least from Jesus alone there is not an ounce of originality about it!
Jesus alone cannot make the Bible accurate.
The Bible alone cannot make the history of Jesus accurate.
As long as those two remain true, I really couldn't give a shit, because there's no point in trying to find out exactly what a person as like unless it can amount to something.
People might care for the sake of history, which I understand, but as an Atheist I would say, what would it matter?
Okay, honest opinion though, I think he existed only because I couldn't care enough to do the research, and that seems to be the general scientific consensus.
I think the stories were heavily fabricated, and 95% stolen from other previous religions, there are so many parallels to stories told centuries before that there is no possible way even half of what's claimed could be true. The parallels are so ridiculously clear-cut, and obvious, even if you took all those similar stories and changed 50% of the common traits between Jesus and [x] you STILL couldn't claim there was no similarity.
Even THEN, just take one different thing that is supposedly "parallel to Jesus" from any other ancient religion, and then combine all those traits, and you could recreate the story piece by piece. This is why I nicknamed Christianity because of it's account of Jesus "The Religion of Recycled Ideas" because at least from Jesus alone there is not an ounce of originality about it!
Which is better:
To die with ignorance, or to live with intelligence?
Truth doesn't accommodate to personal opinions.
The choice is yours.
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There is God and there is man, it's only a matter of who created whom
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The more questions you ask, the more you realize that disagreement is inevitable, and communication of this disagreement, irrelevant.
