RE: Did Jesus exist?
February 8, 2016 at 5:54 am
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2016 at 5:55 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
I may have drawn the comparison here before, but it bears repeating: Jesus of Nazareth (or Bethlehem, the records are muddled) was an historical personage in precisely the same way as was Arthur of Briton. In the first case, it seems highly unlikely that there wasn't an itinerant preacher stirring up people in 1st century Palestine and getting in trouble with the local cops. In the second, the idea of a Romanized British warlord going about thumping Saxon invaders seems reasonable enough.
But you've got about as much chance discovering anything about an historical Jesus by reading the Gospel narrative as you have of learning anything useful about 'King' Arthur by reading Geoffrey of Monmouth or Thomas Malory.
Boru
But you've got about as much chance discovering anything about an historical Jesus by reading the Gospel narrative as you have of learning anything useful about 'King' Arthur by reading Geoffrey of Monmouth or Thomas Malory.
Boru
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