He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. But any further evidence clearly comes under the “beating a dead horse” category so far as this article is concerned.
Well, allright.
Did Jesus Exist?
Unfortunately, the Hebrew version says something different from the Greek. A third category of writing, apocalyptic,The name Jesus occurs only seven times in the entire book, Christ only four times, and Jesus Christ only twice! If Jesus had actually said what Saul implies, and what Mark 10:12 claims he said, his audience would have thought he was nuts – as the Bhagwan says – or perhaps had suffered a blow to the head. But why, then, is Jesus not permitted the “luxury” of actually having lived as did the rest of these? But he could hardly have found in archives a statement such as “the Messiah was executed this morning.” Third, hostile to Christianity as he was, he was surely glad to accept from Christians their own view that Christianity was of recent origin, since the Roman authorities were prepared to tolerate only ancient cults. In fact, there is more evidence that Jesus of Nazareth certainly lived than for most famous figures of the ancient past. The crucial word in this passage is the name James (Jacob in Greek and Hebrew). Moreover, in its present form, the gospel of John is the latest of all the official gospels.The gospel of John was compiled around the year 110 CE. Like so many other things in the Bible, it is a fraud.
| ISBN: 9780236310012 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. Chapter 21 – in which verse 24 asserts that “This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true” – is not the work of an eye-witness.
And the tribe of the Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared.Now no loyal Pharisee would say Jesus had been the Messiah.
The rest of the so-called Pauline epistles can be shown to have been written by other and later authors, so we can throw them out right now and not worry about them.Saul tells us in 2 Corinthians 11:32 that King Aretas of the Nabateans tried to have him arrested because of his Christian agitation. Evidently no other Jesus with whom they could identify the Gospel Jesus was known to them.
Even in the case of other deities, such as Zeus, Thor, Isis, and Osiris, I had always taken it for granted that they were merely deified human heroes: men and women who lived in the later stages of prehistory – persons whose reputations got better and better the longer the time elapsed after their deaths. And that is the subject of my new book, “Did Jesus Exist?” It is true that Jesus is not mentioned in any Roman sources of his day.
Would it be necessary to go to the island today to scan its surface for the radioactive contamination that would have to be there if nuclear explosions had taken place there? Did Jesus Exist? “The judge will decide if Christ exists or not.” When Jesus walked the earth, He worked miracles and taught in such a way as to prove that He was the Son of God. The publication of many examples of so-called wisdom literature, along with the materials from the Essene community at Qumran by the Dead Sea and the Gnostic literature from the Nag Hammadi library in Egypt, has given us a much more detailed picture of the communal psychopathologies which infested the Eastern Mediterranean world at the turn of the era.
They reported that he had appeared to them three days after his crucifixion and that he was alive. Some writers feel a need to justify this assumption at length against people who try from time to time to deny it. He has not yet acquired the physiological and metabolic properties of which we read in the gospels. For example, in Mark 10:12, he has Jesus say that if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery. It’s a beautiful song with an unimaginably horrible message.