RE: Did Jesus Christ exist as a historical human or was he a theological construct?
May 18, 2010 at 3:27 pm
I would say, probably a little bit of both. Was there a man named Jesus who lived during the reign of Tiberius? Maybe, maybe not. We know that everything written about him was written long after his death. We know that there are very few non-christian references to Jesus, and those that exist like that of Tacitus and Josephus are questionable at best. However we do know that Jesus became a lot more popular around 295 AD when Rome adopted Christianity as it's state religion. It's entirely possible that Jesus as both the man and demigod was created there, however there isn't evidence to support that either. So i'll just say, if jesus of nazareth really existed, we don't know very much about him.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
