Theories about Jesus?

[Drich]

Although I have chosen to create this thread in the Christian section, the question I am posing is primarily directed toward non-Christians. Christians have an obligation to believe that Jesus was either god himself or god's son.

For anyone else, that claim is probably absurd. With that, I'd like to get some theories about who Jesus was exactly.

As I see it, there are two basic possibilties:

1. He very well could have been a real person who created a new religious movement. This may or may not have been his intent. Perhaps he was merely a man who tired of the Jewish religion, and felt compelled to introduce some new ideas about heaven, hell, and salvation.

2. He may not have existed at all. There certainly isn't any compelling evidence to support a real historical figure matching the description of the character of Jesus Christ. If he didn't exist, which is a very real possibility, how did such a character come to be invented?

As I said, these are the two basic ideas, but I'm introducing this subject to further explore these ideas or introduce other possibiltiies.

Thoughts?

In the end of the second century leading into the third the 'church' compiled all of the writings on Christ to create the bible. They did not stop at just 'religious texts.' They Annexed everything they could get their hands on. (The book of Luke and the Book of Acts are prime examples of a non-jew/apstole/christian who's writtings were put into the bible.Once they finished they built libraries to keep these letters, books and various writings in. The Vatican library is the end point of a long secession of library's built to house these various texts. For some reason main stream 'proof seekers' don't know about, or rather dont want to know about the books the Vatican contains.

To say there is no historical proof of Christ is foolishness. The most document man in the First century is 'Tiberius ceasar.' IF you counted the bible but left out Christ. Otherwise Christ and Tiberius come in together at 9 pagan accounts each. Yet there is no doubt Tiberius ceasar was a real man. Which means there is more documentation on Christ (including the bible) than any other document person in that time period. To say there is not enough documentation for Christ casts a doubt one every other 'known' person who lived in the first century.

If you want to do some reading this would be a good place to start.
http://www.evidenceforchristianity.org/a...t-century/