Personally I think there was most likely a historical jesus.
My reasoning is purely down to his manner of death.
He was executed by the Romans for being a nuisance. The biblical text goes out of the way to try and explain why such an important godly figure would die such a degrading death, but in doing so makes little sense and smacks of desperation.
It sounds to me like some people followed a charismatic who made lots of promises, who was then done away with by the authorities of the time for being a bit of an inconvenience.
The followers can't admit they were wrong, so they concoct a cock and bull story to justify their stupid faith in someone who fed them a load of bollocks that they swallowed.
I have seen interviews with survivors of the Waco disaster doing exactly this about David koresh.
My reasoning is purely down to his manner of death.
He was executed by the Romans for being a nuisance. The biblical text goes out of the way to try and explain why such an important godly figure would die such a degrading death, but in doing so makes little sense and smacks of desperation.
It sounds to me like some people followed a charismatic who made lots of promises, who was then done away with by the authorities of the time for being a bit of an inconvenience.
The followers can't admit they were wrong, so they concoct a cock and bull story to justify their stupid faith in someone who fed them a load of bollocks that they swallowed.
I have seen interviews with survivors of the Waco disaster doing exactly this about David koresh.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
