Regarding Jesus

[Losty]

I always thought Joshua was a better name than Jesus, I wonder why they went with Jesus

[The Grand Nudger]

Two syllables, was easier to cram into their pagan hymnals, no doubt.

[Losty]

Hehe Joshua lover of my soul, Joshua I will never let you go....I think it has a nice ring :p

[ignoramus]

The virgin birth and Jesus type character has been doing the circles for eons.
Maybe David Ike is onto something with his lizard beings from another dimension keeping the world believing and hoping while they continue their control of the "matrix".

Does it sound any more unfeasible than goddidit!

[The Grand Nudger]

Hehe Joshua lover of my soul, Joshua I will never let you go....I think it has a nice ring :p

You would, wouldn't you? More devotionals to get the juices flowing

I slept but my heart was awake.
Listen! My beloved is knocking:
“Open to me, my sister, my darling,
my dove, my flawless one.
My head is drenched with dew,
my hair with the dampness of the night.”
3 I have taken off my robe—
must I put it on again?
I have washed my feet—
must I soil them again?
4 My beloved thrust his hand through the latch-opening;
my heart began to pound for him.
5 I arose to open for my beloved,
and my hands dripped with myrrh,
my fingers with flowing myrrh,
on the handles of the bolt.

-Song of Songs

Myrrh you say? Sure sister, that's what was dripping.

[Losty]

Riiiiight Myrrh

[Confused Ape]

It's remotely possible that the Biblical Jesus was inspired by a real man. He could have been one of the many Messiah claimants of the time. As he didn't cause enough disturbance to get the Roman legions involved he wouldn't have been recorded in history.

One or more of his supporters could have thought they'd seen him after his death (a very common hallucination) and the story grew with the telling. Then it somehow spread to the Gentiles who added their own mythological details.

[Dystopia]

I think a more interesting question to ask is why should anybody care?

Historical curiosity.

[Natachan]

Well it's not implausible that there was a cult leader around this time about whom the myths arose. Apocolyptic prophets and cult leaders were not uncommon, and there were at least two others (that I know about) who were based in Jewish traditions around this time. while the exact details of his life, death, and resurrection are clearly fictitious it is possible that some of the teachings in his ministry are accurate to a real person.

[The Grand Nudger]

It's remotely possible that the Biblical Jesus was inspired by a real man. He could have been one of the many Messiah claimants of the time. As he didn't cause enough disturbance to get the Roman legions involved he wouldn't have been recorded in history.

Not, in any way shape or form, jesus, or even worth calling jesus.

One or more of his supporters could have thought they'd seen him after his death (a very common hallucination) and the story grew with the telling. Then it somehow spread to the Gentiles who added their own mythological details.

Except that people don't need to hallucinate in order to tell a ghost story, nor does there have a to be any actual person upon whom the ghost is based.

Why would we assume any of that? Why do we have to insist upon jesus?