(November 20, 2015 at 3:42 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Jesus was an imaginary character Paul created to sell his religion of resurrection. He selected the name "Jesus" to tie his imaginary character to other characters with the same name equivalent who were supposedly wise scholars. He wanted him to have credibility instead of using the name of some unknown dummy.
Later on Paul's disciples wrote the Gospels as "prequels" to show Jesus' teachings and life story. Everything they knew about Jesus they got from Paul or simply made up. They also added some of the acts of the three main rebel leaders against the Romans and attributed them to the Jesus character in their stories.
That's not an intelligent response. If you were correct and there was nothing before Paul's writings in the 50's AD how do you explain the epistles of James and Jude and the gospels?
Both Paul himself and Luke in Acts says Paul was a zealous Jew; so how do you explain his dramatic conversion if he invented Jesus?
Finally, the sayings of Jesus are quire different to Paul, so how do you explain that?
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"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
