There's no conclusive historical evidence that he ever existed. The first person to write about him outside of the bible wasn't even born when he supposedly died.
But there is doubt about that.
There is absolutely no conclusive proof Jesus was real. None. If there is, let’s see it. Messages from which god? Horus was 3,000 years BC. Was god testing the water with him and the other dozen with the same story?
Also, no Roman record of him. The Jewish myth was a messiah was coming to kick their arse. According to the deluded, he attracted crowds of thousands, sauntered into Bethlehem on a donkey, the lazy bastard, crowds, palm leaves et al. The Romans where brutal with any potential threat to their Enoure, it’s well documented, but for some reason not a word, no one asked, should we send another Legion just in case? Nothing. It’s all absolute bollocks.
Josephus a Roman wrote nearly a century after and he mentioned Christians, not Christ.
No historical record. A dozen gods with the same story, most predating the tip toeing water acrobat, a bible that states light was switched on the third day. Adam and Eve started humanity through incest, the earth was at the centre of the Universe. The Sun orbited earth. For fuck sake, how can anybody believe anything other than the truth. He was fashioned from other previous gods, who all had to be born of a virgin or they couldn’t be gods.
Don’t get me started on the shit about Moses, Noah and his floating restaurant, that dozy **** who lived in a whale for a week, zombies coming out of graves and cutting about looking for a good coffee, after he snuffed it. A virgin birth. Raising people from the dead. Dying and putting in an appearance so he didn’t miss out on an Easter egg. Floating up to heaven. Satan cutting about and god turning a bling eye. A talking snake, a burning bush, parting seas, god being an enthusiastic genocidal ****, killing babies for being born into the wrong family. And that’s just of the top of my highly intelligent, gloriously fabulously haired head.
It’s a sham.
Yeah sorry guys but this is bollocks. Josephus, Tacitus and Thallus are all very good sources for the existence of Jesus and far from not being born when Jesus died, Thallus’ writings are from 20 years after his death.
These are Roman historians, so “No Roman record of him” is factually wrong.
To quote the wiki (people can go and check the half a dozen sources for this sentence themselves)
“Virtually all scholars of antiquity accept that Jesus was a historical figure, and attempts to deny his historicity have been consistently rejected by the scholarly consensus as a fringe theory.”
It’s not that surprising that this thread which becomes a bit militantly atheist at times would throw up complete denialism of something there’s pretty widespread consensus over, but frankly we have more and better sources for Jesus being a real person than we have for most ancient historical figures of the time.
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