(February 6, 2016 at 6:36 pm)Cephus Wrote:(February 6, 2016 at 6:13 pm)NaughtyButNice Wrote: The truth is no one really knows if he existed or not. Like Dorothy in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Jesus could have been the name of someone the writers knew and they used it because it sounded good and/or was a tribute to that person.
But it still doesn't make the slightest bit of difference if there was a historical Jesus or not. We all know that J.K. Rowling based Professor Snape on a real teacher she had named John Nettleship. That doesn't mean that Professor Snape, the guy who swung a wand and cast spells, was real. Even if there was some itinerant preacher named Jehoshua running around first century Jerusalem, that means fuck all to justifying the Biblical magic man.
Who the fuck cares?
Nestor's position (and mine) is that the Jesus in the Bible is the historical Jesus but with some of his events being exaggerated by the authors (and a few events that didn't happen). Not that the Jesus in the Bible is a myth but based on some anonymous character in history. Again, sort of like Sai Baba, who was obviously a real person, but whose life was made a legend with lots of exaggerations.
