For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus

[Confused Ape]

I have no doubt that apologists will come up with all sorts of reasons to dispute the didache...that's what they do with anything that is inconvenient to their bullshit.

It doesn't really tell us much about the first days of what became Christianity, though, so people will probably speculate for decades.

1: The first Christian communities didn't believe that their Messiah was the son of God/God incarnate.

2: "We need some rules so these will do for now because we're used to them."

But it does exist and was referred to by Eusebius so it was known in antiquity which, at the end of the day, is more than one can say for the Tacitus passage that they love so.

I did some more research on the Tacitus passage looking for unbiased opinions. Some think it's genuine. A couple think it's mostly genuine but ideas differed on what might have been changed. One thought it a fake. Looks like this will keep people speculating for decades as well because it's unlikely that any more copies of the book will turn up.

BTW, that movie was puke-inducing.

John Wayne's wooden declaration that Jesus really was the son of God made up for it.

I think the movie is most memorable for the approach of - "Let's have as many big name Hollywood stars in it as possible and try to outdo The Longest Day." TGSET wins out over TLD for Star Trek fans because it had Spock's father in it.