RE: Did Jesus exist?
January 28, 2016 at 9:31 am
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2016 at 9:31 am by GrandizerII.)
(January 28, 2016 at 9:23 am)Jehanne Wrote:(January 27, 2016 at 11:25 pm)Cato Wrote: Right, because it is a well known fact that people are simply incapable of making shit up.
The Gospels are filled with legendary, embellished material. Even William Lane Craig acknowledges this fact with respect to Matthew 27, going so far as to say that Matthew was not writing literal history. Of course, Craig is a fool; very little historical information can be gleaned from the Gospels, but they all, clearly, point to an epileptic revolutionary with delusions of grandeur, Jesus of Nazareth.
Putting aside the virgin birth and the resurrection (and everything in the Gospel of John), there isn't anything really spectacular in the Synoptic Gospels attributed to Jesus. Sure, there were reports of healing and such, but this is something that we hear about attributed to real people in this present day as well.
