Some NT passages do have echoes of the kind of arguments that Pharisees of the time would have with one another and Jesus’ arguments about the ‘Law’ weren’t exactly extraordinary.
So, yes, I think there was very probably an itinerant preacher ‘Yeshua’ (a very common name, bit like saying there’s a preacher called ‘Dave’) but quite how much of the original remains in Jesus™ would be difficult to say.
So, yes, I think there was very probably an itinerant preacher ‘Yeshua’ (a very common name, bit like saying there’s a preacher called ‘Dave’) but quite how much of the original remains in Jesus™ would be difficult to say.
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
