(February 24, 2019 at 8:04 pm)PRJA93 Wrote:(February 24, 2019 at 7:52 pm)Yonadav Wrote: I don't disagree with that. All I'm saying is that it is not reasonable to expect that there would be writings around about him that were written during his lifetime that would have survived to this day. Some people in this discussion seem to feel that there would be such writings sitting around here and there if he had existed.
Then it's also not reasonable to expect writings just 100 years after his death to have survived to this day... right?
Some religious guy met with success writing about Jesus and his religious sect wrote a whole bunch of copies. Being a religious order, they tried to preserve all of those copies. Some rather old copies managed to survive.
By comparison, Joe Schmo saw Jesus during his lifetime and wrote about him. Joe Schmo is basically a nobody, and no one ever copies his work. Or not very many copies of his work are written. Nothing written by Joe Schmo survives to this day.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
