(December 11, 2019 at 1:55 pm)maxolla Wrote: This is where the discussion gets interesting. You’ve just made five unsupported claims. Actually six with “please don’t bother to list those that you think qualify. They don’t”. I’m perfectly willing to talk specifics with regards to evidence but wouldn’t a starting point be a willingness to at least weigh the evidence on the merits?
I’m curious how the "Jesus myth" was perpetrated. This claim seems to be the most outrageous. One of the, arguably, most written about figures in human history has been made up? The idea that Jesus never existed is as much a fantastic claim as to say Abraham Lincoln didn’t exist. The story of Jesus of Nazareth is one that has been corroborated many times over and repeated for over two thousand years. If Jesus did not exist then we have one of the biggest conspiracies ever perpetrated? Perpetrated by generations of individuals with a oneness of purpose in the perpetration. I wonder what the purpose would be for a conspiracy spanning over two thousand years of a phantom named Jesus.
There are certainly contemporaneous mentions of Jesus but you have deemed them unqualified by your standards I assume.
Max
Yes, and I'm king Isildur. You can't beat death, you cant perform magic, even if your jesus character existed, the legend surrounding him is impossible, no one returns from death, performs miracles or anything that gives comfort to your simple mind. For all I care its nothing but a sad tale of a jewish fella that got nailed to a cross by the romans, then bloated by idiots over the centuries.
