(June 8, 2021 at 3:52 pm)Jehanne Wrote: To take just one example (out of many), I believe that the story of Barabbas, which is common to all four Gospels, to be pure fiction:
Wikipedia -- Barabbas
I think that what the story tells Us, some 2,000 years later, is that all four Gospels were written post-70 AD, after the future emperor Titus had laid waste to the city of Jerusalem, and the fledgling Christian community wanted to frame its new religion as being friendly to the Romans, the victors, and hostile to the losers, the Jews. As such, the growing and embellishing tales of the historical Jesus were continuing to evolve, which oddly, included the account of a fictitious individual (more oddly, enough, with the first name "Jesus") whom Pilate pardoned to appease the Jewish mob, who became guilty of the "crime" of deicide for having murdered the Son of God.
ok so, how does barabas change anything in the core teachings of the bible?
