For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus

[Confused Ape]

Was there anything wrong with what I offered on page 1 or so of this thread?

So, other than all that, we still have... we still have... we still have...?

The question of how Christianity got started without anybody at all behind the myths and legends. The reason why I posted this topic is for people to tackle the practicalities concerning how Christianity came into existence when it did if there wasn't a real man somewhere.

Pagan paternity is found in certain core Christian beliefs that are completely alien or even blasphemous to the Jewish faith. The Jews had little or no concept of an afterlife, much less any detailed description of a salvation message essential to Christianity, and the idea of an intercessor to Yahweh, which Jesus requires, was/is completely unacceptable to a jealous god that explicitly forbade such an arrangement.

Did the pagan elements get added after the teachings of a Jewish sect were taken to the Gentiles or was there a bizarre Jewish sect in Judea which followed a mixture of Judaism and pagan beliefs? Can you come up with any ideas concerning what this original Jewish sect was about? Was there an original Jewish sect? If not, why did a religion about a divine being who was supposed to be the real Jewish Messiah come into existence outside Judea?

In Post #161 I came up with an idea based on The Problem Of Paul. I had to get round the fact that the author regarded Jesus as a real person but I managed it.