Where did the Jesus myth come from?

[cratehorus]

Just so everyone knows Dan brown copied the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail. Which took decades of research to write and is an indepth look into templar history. The author is a devout catholic. It's fiction because it's about a "historical Jesus" which never existed.

Zeitgeist is just crap

How many ways are there to say it? The dying/resurrected vegetation god was a common motif in the Ancient Mediterrranean. "Jesus" was nothing special. In fact, the only thing that sets xtianity apart from the other cults was the viciousness of their followers in stamping out earlier religions.

http://www.denverseminary.edu/article/th...urrection/


( I deliberately put Professor Hess' position at the Denver Seminary in the quote so that xtians can shit bricks.

I like that even more than muffins.

I will add a opinion I express of how the Jesus story we read in the gospels got first written. Jews around turn of the first millennium CE had messianic expectation, which were main cause of three major wars against the Roman Empire. In the aftermath of the third and last one (Bar Kochba) some decided that the Messiah had already arrived, just that few noticed he had arrived.

Using some interpretation from the book of Daniel, they decided that this Messiah lived around 30AD. So they combed through the Old Testament to determine what such a Messiah would have done, the result being a lot of the stories we read in the Gospels. Also they cribbed a lot from the Historian Josephus in order to make the story sound historically credible.

the roman empire in 1000 bc was the size of one city? and Josephus wrote about him decades after his death............ Jesus never lived so how does he and Josephus relate to an old war?