JESUS CHRIST: Myth or Historical Person?

[Alter2Ego]

Alter2Ego, the evidence you have presented is not terribly substantial given the claims made about Jesus life and deeds written in the Gospels. If these events which are described in the gospels actually happened, I would have expected a lot more being written about them by contemporary writers (which a substantial enough amount of their works survive to our era). Also not to mention Christians would made the effort to preserve these works as well.

ALTER2EGO -to- JUSTTRISTO:
Not only was Christianity a new religion, its founder, Jesus Christ was poor and therefore not paid too much attention by people of privilege. In addition, Jesus Christ was executed three years after he began his ministry. Add to that the fact that his followers were routinely persecuted, flogged, and imprisoned, and you have a climate of fear surrounding Christianity. Now, which contemporary writer in his right mind would have stuck his neck out in a situation like that?

I might add that not only was Christianity not a well-known religion at the time, it was confined to a fairly small location--besides being unpopular. Contemporary writers ran the risk of being persecuted if they had written anything to bring attention to this new religion. If you wish, I can give you a scriptural example of the risk involved in drawing attention to Christianity back then.


I will reply to the other part of your post later.