RE: The Historical Jesus
June 22, 2024 at 12:02 am
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2024 at 12:03 am by Fake Messiah.)
(June 21, 2024 at 6:22 pm)h311inac311 Wrote: As I said the Gosples were written by people who recorded the stories that eye-witnesses told them.
That's not true because gospels are full of stories that could not have happened. For example, one of the first stories is that Mary and Joseph had to travel many miles to participate in census because Joseph's 35 grandfather was from Bethlehem. The reality is that people did not have to travel because of census, so this event never happened, meaning there were no eyewitnesses so the Gospel writer invented stories. And there are many impossible stories like that all the way till the end to invented Roman custom to free Jewish criminals on the Passover.
And some stories did not have witnesses like when Jesus is alone talking to himself.
Especially if we are talking about the so-called historical Jesus because historians don't take gospel stories at face value but as myths about some historical person.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
