Historians have said he was a good preacher and was charismatic. He'd probably be someone I'd be willing to listen to (like someone today giving a good TED talk) and I'd agree with some of his ideas.
shareI always imagined his speeches probably sounded a lot like Mahatma Gandhis.
shareSeeing as there is no historical figure called Jesus Christ in all of written history other than in a fiction book, he most certainly didn't exist and wasn't like anything.
shareIt's a good deal more likely that a historical figure that we know as Jesus did exist than that he didn't. Unless you think St Paul didn't exist either and was invented as well as part of a conspiracy to create Christianity out of nothing.
You don't need a conspiracy to invent a religion, that's how all religions were invented.
shareWhat, out of nothing ?
SO I assume you believe Zeus and Hera really walked the earth and that is why the ancient Greeks believed in them.
shareAh a slippery eel !
You didn't answer my question about St Paul slippery eel.
I know nothing about Christianity, so I guess he was fake too eel.
shareThen if St Paul didn't exist someone invented a fictional historical character who was the one to get Christianity off the ground and running. What would you call that but evidence of a conspiracy to start a religion ?
I call that who bleeding cares.. People like religions even if there is no evidence to support their claims.
shareNo way of knowing
If he was actually a person walking around calling himself the son of God then there's a possibility that he was either mentally ill or had narcissistic delusions or was a con man. If that's the case then he might have been a troublemaker like most other cult leaders
If he was even close to the philosophical wiseman that Christianity portrays him as then he would've obviously been pretty cool
I lean toward the former, only because most modern "prophets" like Joseph Smith and L. Ron Hubbard are total boners. I think it's more likely that early Christianity just had really great missionaries
Not that I have a problem with that. I think the masses need some figure to rally around in order to give them purpose and moral direction. Jesus is as good a figure as any
Matthew 7:19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
WTF
The way I see the Bible (Old/New) is more about the politics of their time. I see the perceived Christ as a leaver of change in his time. I may be wrong, but what a good question to ask OP.
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