RE: JESUS <3
July 16, 2015 at 2:18 am
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2015 at 2:22 am by robvalue.)
Hard to answer. The jesus character in the bible is mythical, this is not an account of a real person. The only question is whether there was a real person on which it was very loosely based.
The problem isn't finding such a person, but rather that it could have been hundreds of people, and trying to separate them is pretty much impossible. The story is so far removed from reality that to say it's "based on" a particular person rather than another at that time is pretty arbitrary and meaningless.
Personally I think the jesus character is say 1% a mixture of several people around at the time, and 99% fictional.
I'm not sure what answer this creates in your poll
I'm sure there were plenty of people around that time who fitted the very basic description of "a Jesus". Even the most basic information about any of these Jesuses is hard to come by and verify. If one person could fit the description, then plenty more who were similar would have existed too.
The problem isn't finding such a person, but rather that it could have been hundreds of people, and trying to separate them is pretty much impossible. The story is so far removed from reality that to say it's "based on" a particular person rather than another at that time is pretty arbitrary and meaningless.
Personally I think the jesus character is say 1% a mixture of several people around at the time, and 99% fictional.
I'm not sure what answer this creates in your poll
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