RE: For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus
February 24, 2013 at 1:16 pm
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2013 at 1:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 24, 2013 at 12:34 pm)Confused Ape Wrote: 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.Regardless of whether or not there was a jesus there is still "somebody behind" the myths and legends. Stories don't write themselves. There could be hundreds of "real men" behind them - and nary a "jesus" among them.
A similar question was asked thousands of years ago about pagan faiths and one of the answers offered was Euhemerism. The trouble with both Euhemerism and a historical jesus is that neither are actually asking the question of whether or not their respective religious figures existed - they both simply assume that those figures existed and then wax on about the details of their existence. Step one, provide a euhemerist god or a historical jesus. Step 2 - wax on about the details. It's always step one that's missing.
Without step one we are simply weaving (yet another) fictional narrative - to explain a fictional narrative. Turtles all the way down. Any insight we gain from this will be insight into ourselves - not euhemerist gods or historical jesus-es.
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