(February 11, 2014 at 6:03 pm)FreeTony Wrote: I guess the options that I can think of are:
1. Jesus is totally a myth.
2. Some guy was around 2000 years ago, did some preaching and had some followers, but was pretty unremarkable.
3. Someone, possibly called Jesus, who did some preaching and attempted say to heal people. Some of the stories are true to some extent, with a lot of embelishment.
4. Everything in the bible about Jesus is true.
5. Somewhere else between 1 and 4.
Does anyone who is well read on this know what is thought to be the most likely? Also from what I understand there were active historians in the area at the right time who completely failed to notice all this going on. Is this true?
I think probably 3 or somewhere between 2 or 3. Does it really matter? All the supernatural accounts are clearly false, god is a myth and Jesus is dead just like everyone else. The problems with Christianity are so incredibly vast that it's totally irrelevant whether or not there is some historical person that Jesus is based on. I don't really understand why some people get so held up on it.