(November 11, 2022 at 12:13 am)arewethereyet Wrote: I think Jesus is fictional, or at best, a composite.
Once someone can convince me that a virgin birth was possible, I might rethink the whole thing.
This is a position called mythicism. I reject it because in the wake of this fellow's execution there were suddenly a number of diverse Jesus movements (Ebionites, gnostics, Marcionites, Yohanan's school, proto-Orthodox). It's hard to imagine all those groups suddenly forming without the existence of a traveling magician/teacher who stepped on his dick and got on the bad side of the Romans.
