lucent Wrote:So you're going back on your statement now that there aren't any first century references to Jesus, and are now just saying they are unconvincing. The fact is Jesus is better attested to than anyone in that period, and it's only your admitted bias which blinds you. If you followed the standards of evidence that historians and scholars use, there would be no doubt Jesus is a real person. If you say what we have isn't enough evidence, then you'll have to throw out at least 3/4's of what we know about history as unreliable. Even Richard Dawkins admitted Jesus was a real person, and that's someone who has made it his lifes work to destroy Christianity.
The fact that jesus did or did not exist changes nothing. Much like the star in the east or a huge flood changes nothing. None of those things are proven to have happened and yet if you could prove them, it would only mean that someone recorded a heavily-embellished story that they heard third-hand based on a true event that had absolutely nothing to do with the supernatural acts of an angry desert god.
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If he even existed, he was more than likely delusional or a con man feeding off the messiah frenzy of the time period.