I am currently reading a great book entitled The Jesus Sayings by Rex Weyler. The subtitle states:"The Quest For His Authentic Message." The book goes through the gospels and other books that did not make the cut to try to weed out the so called actual sayings of Jesus Christ. I personally don't believe in the existence of Jesus as an historical figure but I find this book interesting in that it also points out the flaws in many of the gospels and even in some of the secular texts that supposedly attest to the existence of Christ such as Josephus. I find it interesting that the author seems learned but when he speaks of other historical figures he emphasizes often that for some of them there is not sufficient evidence that they existed. But when it comes to Jesus he does not use the same criterion, although in my opinion the evidence for the existence of Jesus is just as lacking as those other historical figures he mentions in the book.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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