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That Jesus never existed?
That he did exist and the stories about him were made up or inflated?
That he's a construct, an idealisation for the focus of faith?
You won't find many historians who'll give credence to the idea that there was no such man.
btw - there was no small army of clerks writing down his words. The earliest possible date for the gospel writings is around 70AD - some 40 years afer Jesus' death. Some of what was written down will have come, most likely, from people remembering what he said, and telling it to one another. Eventually, someone thought - hey, this is good stuff, and decided to write it down. The gospel of Luke is written in such a way to give the impression it was written as a result of wanting to get down things on record - that Luke went and spoke to eye witnesses, asking them what they remembered, what they'd seen, and then he wrote it all down.
I don't know where you're getting your theories from, but they're far off mainstream historical and biblical scholarship.
Well did he exist? did he exist in the form portrayed in the bible or was he David "golden balls" Beckham?
was he in fact a he?
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I can still remember all the words and tunes from the hymns we used to sing at scool assembly. Even though I never had any faith - it all sunk in and stuck
I suppose it would be like you knowing all the words to 'the red flag' or the Horst Wesel song.
Combe bye arr was a good one. Sounds quite northern too. Altogether now...
Don't the Jews disagree? At least as far as who his father was.
Because of family connections, I know more about Judaism than is usual.
He doesn't feature in the Jewish religion at all, but this is mainly a question of time, in the same way that the Christian bible has never been 'updated' to include Mohammed.
Israel at the time was a melting-pot of different religious factions, and Jesus of Nazareth represented only one of these.
There are people known as 'Messianic Jews', who are people who adhere to Judaism, but including Jesus, but they are not mainstream.
Judaism is just the same as any other religion ... it is split into a whole spectrum of different beliefs and practices.
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