Where is Jesus?

[solja247]

"If we want to go with reliability then the four gospels are much more reliable."

This has got to be the dumbest comment ever posted on these forums, seriously. John is not even considered as a biography of Christ because it mostly focuses on the spiritual aspects of Christianity. The synoptic gospels were written by anonymous authors and were not given the names that are attached to them today till at least the middle of the second century. Mark being the oldest of the three was not written till about 70 A.D. some 40 years after the alleged death of Christ, and none of the the gospels are first hand accounts of the story of Christ. Not to mention that none, zero, zilch of the original documents are extant today what we have are copies of copies of copies. All these works have been written and reworked so many times both in editing and translations that I bet they are nothing like the original documents. So much for reliability.

"I'm actually going to see a Biblical scholar on the historicity of Jesus on Thursday. Do you have any short questions you would like to ask and I will post them on here."

That's like asking the pizza maker if eating pizza everyday is healthy?

This is rather amusing. If I said, 'Aristotle doesnt exisit.' I would be a psuedo-scholar. Although if I said, 'Jesus exisited and the synoptic gospels ARE accurate depictions of Jesus.' I would be laughed at. The problem isnt history, its philosophy, if I was too prove to you that the four gospels were valid you couldnt really deny the resurrection of Jesus, just like Anthony Flew wasnt able to deny it for any good reason.

John 20
30Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. 31But these are written that you may[a] believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

So you are going to say they are unreliable because the oldest manuscript we have dates 200 yrs after the writing of the gospels? This is hypocritical you should dismiss all history like that. Oh wait, we wouldnt have much ancient history then, would we?

Forgive me for asking a Biblical scholar but I attempt to be a seeker of the Truth and I also asked any other seeker of the truth if they had any sincere questions.