Wednesday, August 10, 2011

How can someone say there is NO proof that Jesus existed?

I wrote about this last night and got ignorant hate mail. Okay, there's a recent theory going around that Jesus never existed at all....but this is old news to the scholarly and historical community. Yes, there are paralells to Jesus's story with pagan figures, such as Mithra, Zoroaster, Krishna, Osiris, Dyonisis, and even Saddhartha Gatauma...and traditions borrowed from them. Now there is less evidence that Zoroaster, Saddhartha Gatauma, and Krishna existed, due to thier materials being written centuries after thier deaths, but some like to accepth thier existence on a silver platter. This only proves that the pagan myths perhaps enhanced his divinity. Now...Proof...Lets simply start with the gospels and the letters of the New Testament. They are ALL first century or at latest second century doents....and the New Testament apocrypha is twice as large as the Old Testament. First through third century gnostic texts are found outside of the bible. Many historians such as Eusebius, Josephus, Tacitus, An, Tertullian, CLement, the list goes on. Now they will tell you that Josephus's writings were scribbled in, by the church, because it's only like a paragraph mention of a "very infuential man." It wasn't that necessary. Jesus was just acommon criminal executed by the Jews and Romans of that century. His disciples were still in the works of influencing OUTSIDE of Israel, while Joshephus's main intention was to give a historical account of the Old Testament....and the Romans and Jewish doents confirm the existence of Herod the Great, with the attitude towards other figures that opposed the belief of his divinity. ...the existence of Pontius Pilate, and first century doents of the Coptic Sect in Egypt clarifying Jesus's existence. THe official scholarly dating by historians are around 4/5 BC, so the Gregorian calendar we use today, is fairly accurate to the time of his life. We have accounts of all his disciples lives from Apocryphal works from the 1rst through 3rd century....if you think this is not proof, you're delusional. Caesar never officially wrote about himself, and it was the disciples of previous figures that wrote about thier ethical teachers centuries later. Hell in that case, Muhamaad was illiterate, so the only reliable source we have of him is what others wrote about him. This is as lame as conspiracy theorists who say the pyramids and Stonehenge were constructed by aliens, 9/11 was done by the government, or we never even landed on the moon. People there is more proof of Jesus's existence than most people in history. We have centuries of it dating from the century he lived in. Yes, pagan myths could have enhanced his divinity, but to say he never existed or that there is NO proof shows intellecual laziness, and lack of knowledge concerning history...so please come out of your fantasy box.

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