(June 3, 2015 at 1:11 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: You..do know they simply could've been wrong, right? They could've genuinely and honestly believed in this stuff, believed that what the stories they were telling and writing down later were true. I don't think the claim here is that they consciously sat down and said "Let's lie to people."
Lay off the strawmen, Randy, it's unfitting for someone as articulate as you.
Not according to pocaracas. He says the story of Yeshu existed long before Jesus was born...invented...aggrandized...whatever.
If the apostles knew of this story and simply used it as a basis for their own...then they knew they were lying.
Of course, one has to wonder why the other Jews who also knew of that story didn't point to Yeshu when the disciples of Jesus first started to circulate. Instead, they claimed that the disciples stole the body, or dogs dug it up...any number of explanations were given EXCEPT that Jesus was just the repackaged myth of Yeshu.
The Jesus Myth is modern folly.
