You shame your name my friend if you go about believing in a literal historic Jesus.
To believe such, you have to believe in fantasy, miracles and magic.
That is not a wise belief. It is a rather stupid one.
You might have missed other writings that make Jesus, what, the 7th man born of a virgin.
Your God is quite prolific with his invisible flying sperm that targets only virgins.
Regards
DL
Hello Greatest, I don’t think he was born of a virgin either, that would have been very freaky.
The story of Christianity is ugly, and the canon gospels were deliberately changed by the Roman Empire when they created the “Roman Unified Religion”.
From the beginning of Christianity in the 1st century, the movement started to gain a lot of followers and it was prohibited by the Roman Empire. The original Christians were prosecuted for more than 300 years and survived through their own means, some as martyrs and some as marginal citizens. By the 2nd and 3rd Centuries there were more than 32 gospels, and Christianity was already the biggest threat to the Empire because of the number of followers. So when Romans legalized it by the 4th century it was a political move, they systematically picked 4 main gospels, because it would be impossible to change more than 30 gospels. They added their own rituals, practices and beliefs to the scriptures. After that, they destroyed any other scripture that they could find.
Obviously stuff like: being born of a virgin, the December 25th birthdate, the Sunday as the holly day; all these were rituals inherited from Mithraism, the Roman religion before Jesus. At the beginning Mithraism was the main religion among the population of the Roman Empire (in Jerusalem opposed by Moses following), and by the 3rd Century AC, against Roman prosecution, Christian population over counted Mithraism, Jews or Pagans of the time.
Answer this: Why do you think that in 200 years’ time, a religion that started from scratch took over more than half of the population of the Roman Empire (included Romans themselves) ? Where do you think the scriptures of Jesus came from? Who “invented” them? If Mithras’s religion was already the main religion amongst the population at the beginning of the First Century, why didn’t Mithraism prevailed over a religion that “someone” invented, even against such strong opposition?
There is more information in the apocryphal gospels, there is much more different and contradictory information. From Zen-Like sayings of the
Gospel of Thomas that unlike the canonical gospels, it just contains powerful sayings attributed to Jesus, and it just doesn’t care (as it should be) about the historical Jesus. But it cares much about the teachings. To Gospels like
Mary Magdalene’s, who describe the old arguing among Jesus disciples about women (in that chauvinistic culture), you can find evidence in almost all gospels that Mary was undoubtedly one of the main disciples of Jesus, but according to the Gospel of Mary, other disciples (especially Peter) were against a woman having any kind of power. And it turns out Mary had a great influece in some branches of early Christians but that movement was not accepted by the prevailing chauvinist culture.
BTW, I’m not a “christian”, and I don’t have a god you can argue about.
I cannot prove the historical Jesus, just as skeptics cannot prove that he didn’t exist. But I really enjoy reading every paper there is about Jesus, I do think they contain much wisdom.
