(September 19, 2019 at 11:35 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Weeks or months, how did you establish that? 300 years is alot of months.....just saying....
Theres this idea that christian history started at 0 ad, and that's when christians began claiming things we would recognize as christian...but that's not the story that the evidence we -do- have tells. Anyone who tries to work out what hilarious sequence of natural™ events must have (or could have) occurred to lead to the story that we have now is working from a centuries long post dated starting point of only the faction that literally killed it's way to being the last man standing for purposes of securing state authority.
It's a reasonable inference. If something truly "miraculous" had happened during or after Jesus' crucifixion, the Romans and/or Jews would have mentioned it -- Pilate, for instance, would have written to Rome about anything "unusual" going on. He did not, because, there was nothing for him to say. Jesus' execution was SOP that day.
That some of Jesus' followers began having "visions" of their now-dead savior is consistent with modern psychology and cult-like behavior even in our day, and, it is consistent with all of the other so-called "wonder" workers throughout history. The Gospels display embellishment and interpolation, which was no doubt true of Mark's Gospel, whose author, while displaying his ignorance of first-century Palestine geography, also embellished his sources.
