(February 5, 2015 at 11:13 am)SteveII Wrote: You seem to think that Paul was a generation removed from the events. He was not. He would have been a child or young man when Jesus died. He didn't get his info from the telephone game. He knew, met with, and corresponded with actual disciples of Jesus. So for your theory to work, the actual eyewitnesses to Jesus' life would have had to lie to Paul who passed it on in his letters. The eyewitnesses also wrote letters (at least John, Peter, and James' survived) where they lied.
You know?... if a guy is intent on lying, the fact that he never talked to any of those persons wouldn't keep him from making that detail up, in order to lend credence to his other more far-fetched tales.
But the thread's OP was not about how the gospels are lying, but about previous mythologies or events which may have been incorporated into the Jesus myth and which are demonstrably (up to a degree) not attributable to Jesus.
So the ol'Teacher... lived, at least, 100 years before the christ figure... and people believed that he did many of the things later attributed to Jesus. Explain that, please!
