RE: Did Jesus exist at all?
April 30, 2016 at 2:57 am
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2016 at 2:58 am by Mudhammam.)
(April 30, 2016 at 2:26 am)Redbeard The Pink Wrote: Like I said, the source of the Jesus myth does not matter at all. Jesus Christ of Nazareth did not exist in the same sense that Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter did not exist. Even if there was a guy named Jesus preaching at that time, he is not the Bible character. The Bible character is made up (pretty sure the magic powers would give that away), and that character is the only one that matters to the validity of the Christian faith. A mundane guy named Jesus does nothing for them, a bunch of guys for that character to be based on does nothing for them, and a previous iteration of that character with no Earthly component to his deeds CERTAINLY wouldn't help them, and those are by far the three most likely scenarios.True, and trivial. Glad you're catching on that everybody in history is written into books from the standpoint of their authors.
I'm sure that Rake and Nest-Egg here will chime in with "Oh, no main-stream historian thinks blah blah blah..." fine. Don't care. The magic zombie-Jew wasn't real, regardless of where the story actually came from.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza