RE: Who is Jesus?
June 25, 2015 at 4:13 pm
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2015 at 4:17 pm by Coreni.)
From what some scholars say. Or Ehrman atleast.
An apocalyptic person, gets himself in trouble and gets crucified.
Atleast thats the most basic way i can describe it. But there are good reasons among sceptics that the whole Jesus story might be just made up. Because
1: There are no historians who write before after the gospels are written, which would be 70 AD with Gospel of Mark. (Atleast the common ones i've checked like Tacitus and Josephus).
2: The people who wrote those, wherent even there to witness the event. They where borned somewhat after Jesus's death. So the only source they base this from is simply christian sources.
3: The earliest christian sources simply are from Epistles of Paul. 1 thessalonians 50 AD being the earliest. And even so Jesus is not presented as a being who walks on earth, he talks nothing about Jesus life and miracles. Its all "Sky deity" talk etc.
So i can see why some sceptics have issues accepting it.
An apocalyptic person, gets himself in trouble and gets crucified.
Atleast thats the most basic way i can describe it. But there are good reasons among sceptics that the whole Jesus story might be just made up. Because
1: There are no historians who write before after the gospels are written, which would be 70 AD with Gospel of Mark. (Atleast the common ones i've checked like Tacitus and Josephus).
2: The people who wrote those, wherent even there to witness the event. They where borned somewhat after Jesus's death. So the only source they base this from is simply christian sources.
3: The earliest christian sources simply are from Epistles of Paul. 1 thessalonians 50 AD being the earliest. And even so Jesus is not presented as a being who walks on earth, he talks nothing about Jesus life and miracles. Its all "Sky deity" talk etc.
So i can see why some sceptics have issues accepting it.
