All the historical evidence for Jesus in one room

  • Jumper775@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That is just wrong. There isn’t any evidence anything he said was true, but we know that the guy that the Bible was written about existed and was crucified and taught what would become christianity. Now the evidence is essentially that the book exists about him, and that he is referenced in other adjacent religious texts, but that evidence is still more than the evidence that it was made up, and is still enough that it’s widely believed that he was a real guy. If what he taught was true or not is another story.

    • yata@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      There isn’t any evidence anything he said was true, but we know that the guy that the Bible was written about existed and was crucified and taught what would become christianity.

      We actually don’t know any of that, and that is not what the historical consensus is either.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldOP
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        1 year ago

        I am always curious about how the Jesus was real crowd explains all these things Jesus supposedly taught that no one seems to know about until about fifty years later. And why these things he taught just happen to be from a subset of the Greek OT that was popular at the time. Strange how an Aramaic speaking rabbi, in an area with a 1% literacy rate, would only quote from a book written in Greek. And no one is aware of these parables and sayings.

        According to Paul these are all the things that Jesus taught:

        1. Don’t get divorced and if you do the woman is never to marry someone else

        2. Pay your preacher

        The second one is debatable as well.