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Originally Posted by Textcritic
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It is historically more plausible that the man Jesus existed than it is that he was invented and mythologized.
The reason for this is quite simple: In the historical and cultural context of first cent. Palestine, it is practically impossible that the claims made by the Church about Jesus would have been invented, and virtually certain that they would have gained no traction. On the contrary, it is much more reasonable to expect that:
· there was an actual man from Nazareth named Jesus.
· he was a religious zealot who led an apocalyptic religious movement in the Judaean hill country.
· he caused a religious disturbance in Jerusalem that led to his arrest, trial and Roman execution.
· something happened following his execution to lead his followers to assert his resurrection, and which laid the groundwork for the enormously popular early Christian movement.
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Based on your assertion that it would be "plausible" that a man named Jesus existed at this time, and the fact that he had a large movement along with many miracles attributed to him that caused the Romans to execute him, where are the records?
There is nothing, so unless you suggest that the Romans/Palestinians/any other group simply decided as a whole to eliminate any message of this heretic then the message has to be, he didn't exist or was a figment of a groups imagination.
Now I could be wrong and there "might be" something written on a man named Jesus, or written by Jesus himself, or there might be some artifact of his hidden away in a vault, but I haven't seen anything in my world that suggest the same. IF Scholars have this information it should be shared freely, implications should not be made.
It is just as likely that their was a group of Jews who wanted their own power, and were dissatisfied with the direction of their particular faith at the time, invented the man known as Jesus and rode this story to the fallacy we know today as Christianity? You can clearly see that they stole facets of many other religions to make their own seem like fact.