RE: Evidence for Jesus outside the Bible?
August 6, 2011 at 1:21 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2011 at 1:29 pm by Hannah.)
No Rhythum. I dropped it like a hot brick. I am not clinging on to Biblical stories like some kid sucking a dummy.
'I also wanted to add that there are those of us who maintain that Jesus is a narrative device, due to our inability to prove otherwise.'
What evidence of his life would be enough to make you believe he ever existed? Isn't it enough that there was state sactioned persecution of Christians only 30 years after he died? His followers must have mushroomed pretty rapidly to have become a state problem.
Instead of just ignoring all the evidence, whether flimsy or substantial, why don't you respond to it with your reasons for not finding it evidential enough? If there was no Jesus, why was there state sanctioned Christian persecution in 64AD ordered by Nero and persecution intermitantly after that? If there was no real Jesus, how did a following so large develop so quickly? If there was no Jesus, who created his character? Who would have benefited at the time? What type of people would have benefited from a mythical character like Jesus and how did they manage to 'install' him into people's mind so quickly and to such a degree that people were prepared to die rather than give up their faith in him? Please answer these questions or I will stop answering your questions.
'I also wanted to add that there are those of us who maintain that Jesus is a narrative device, due to our inability to prove otherwise.'
What evidence of his life would be enough to make you believe he ever existed? Isn't it enough that there was state sactioned persecution of Christians only 30 years after he died? His followers must have mushroomed pretty rapidly to have become a state problem.
Instead of just ignoring all the evidence, whether flimsy or substantial, why don't you respond to it with your reasons for not finding it evidential enough? If there was no Jesus, why was there state sanctioned Christian persecution in 64AD ordered by Nero and persecution intermitantly after that? If there was no real Jesus, how did a following so large develop so quickly? If there was no Jesus, who created his character? Who would have benefited at the time? What type of people would have benefited from a mythical character like Jesus and how did they manage to 'install' him into people's mind so quickly and to such a degree that people were prepared to die rather than give up their faith in him? Please answer these questions or I will stop answering your questions.
