RE: How to debunk the resurrection?...
September 13, 2010 at 2:11 am
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2010 at 2:20 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Quote:Eh?? Don't a lot of people accept that he was a real human being, who did live
Yes.So what? Argument ad populum, aka argument by consensus.A lot of people believed GWB was good a president and attually re elected him. A lot of people believe in miracles and the infallibility of The Pope.
Quote: A lot of people are fucking stoopid (George Carlin)
There is no evidence for the historical existence of Jesus.The best that he may well have existed.The basics seem plausible enough: A wondering rabbi in C1st CE Judea,whose may have been something like Yeshua/Yoshua bar Yusef. He seems to have followed a long Jewish tradition of itinerant teachers. He may have had a small group of followers and may even have been crucified by the Romans for sedition.
Such a person was not the founder of Christianty,but at best the founder of a small orthodox Jewish sect. A small ,obscure sect was transformed into Christianity by the the person or persons now called 'Paul Of Tarsus'.The authority for the massive changes* were Paul's visions. (No one acatually knos who he was either,or even if he was only one person. Some modern scholars claim Paul's letters were almost certainly written by at least two authors.
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* Regardless of Jesus' instructions to obey the law,Paul abolished most of it,including circumcision and the strict dietary laws.. Paul also introduced new theological ideas,such as an eternal hell. Such a concept has never been part of Judaism.


