RE: Didn't Nero launch Christianity?
April 15, 2019 at 3:31 pm
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2019 at 3:33 pm by Acrobat.)
(April 15, 2019 at 2:53 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Your list will invariably contain references to inauthentic paul, Acro..but that's neither here nor there, as we know for a fact that a significant number of early christians believed in a jesus that wasn't in any sense a real man and that alot of the christian traditions stories are derived from that group.
The only thing we could be debating is whether or not paul or those who wrote under pauls name were among them while leveraging the narratives. Or if he (or whomever), believing that jesus were a real man himself, accidentally used those narratives in ignorance.
No, there were no Christians early or otherwise who didn’t acknowledge a historical Jesus, so I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Even the gnostic sects that would have stood to gain the most out of a non-historical Jesus, recognized that he existed in the appearance of the flesh.
