RE: Did Jesus Christ exist as a historical human or was he a theological construct?
May 21, 2010 at 3:47 pm
1- Ok so there's a marble stone that is carbon dated to the 3rd century and mentions nazareth as an actual place. It existed at least by the 3rd century. Since town's didn't pop up overnight , it could have existed for any indeterminant times before that, but no longer has any findable evidence of it's exisstence today. Is that about it? That seems pretty simple. Unless the census of that town was on the marble was on that fragment no one will know for sure in concrete who lived there. However there are theese documents of biblical origin that I believe were from the 1st century (Luke I believe) that talk about one guy from that town. plausible that the town was then still forming and someone named Jesus could have lived there for a short time.
2-Yes we all havethe same evidence, with a different perspective on it. Those not in denail (not saying you of course or anyone here)will take the evidence on it's merits with as little bias as possible. That evidence can then be used to shape their beliefs of reality. True a lot of people have tried twisting/ adding/ editing words and evidence to support their beliefs in the past. I think we can both agree that it's much harder to twist the evidence in today's time and we're both thankful for it.
2-Yes we all havethe same evidence, with a different perspective on it. Those not in denail (not saying you of course or anyone here)will take the evidence on it's merits with as little bias as possible. That evidence can then be used to shape their beliefs of reality. True a lot of people have tried twisting/ adding/ editing words and evidence to support their beliefs in the past. I think we can both agree that it's much harder to twist the evidence in today's time and we're both thankful for it.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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