Jesus is real
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This is the same pop atheism that was getting pushed by the Zeitgeist documentary and the new atheism movement in the early 00s. Biblical scholars do not give this any credence, and I'm including the atheist scholars such as Bart Ehrman. English puns and tenuous connections do not make Jesus=Krishna=Mitra, and the theory is not taken seriously by anyone except the NA movement- which is part of the Social Justice movement, by the way.
If you're interested in how Christianity's icons and mythos were influenced by other, previous religions, look up Sol Invictus and the manner in which Constantine turned Christianity into the state religion of Rome.
Speaking as someone who is entirely pragmatic about religion, you must understand that Christianity is the antidote to globohomo, and even Q encourages prayer.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38600/38600-h/38600-h.htm
Try reading the truth instead of evading it
You need to do some serious research. It is a matter of historical fact there have bee. Sixteen documented saviours..all saying the same things..all purporting to save man from his sins.
Prayers are something else...you don't need a man to have been tortured to death on a cross to save you from your sins...a scapegoat..to pray.
The problem with myths is that they are myths. There is no historicity or evidence or documentary/textual chain of custody. So we don't know when such tales were written (certainly much later than claimed) nor by whom.
Such is not the case with the New Testament accounts of Jesus. They were written by the people whose names are put to them. They were written when they were claimed to have been written. They have scores of corroborating witnesses. They have endured centuries of hostile criticism. They are backed up by archeology. There is an unbroken chain of custody. They are confirmed by contemporary (in other words, ancient, historical, from that period) 3rd-party scholars and historians. They are confirmed by the lives of those who told the tales and by the lives of the disciples of those who told the tales, and they are confirmed by millions of modern believers who daily experience God's presence in their lives, myself included.
Don't waste your time with this antichrist.
You are kidding yourself. Even the church admit there is no documentary evidence for jesus..but there is for the other redeemers
don't confuse god with a redeemer tortured and murdered so you can go to a mythical heave.n when you die.
Read "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis and "More Than a Carpenter" by Josh McDowell.
Both started as skeptics and uncovered the truth and became believers.
I find it so mind-boggling that you actually spend your entire day, trying to refute the claims of christ. What does it say about you?
In doing so, you have hordes of people come out and prove the existence of Christ by refuting your claims. It’s so amazing that through your own reprisals, the name of Jesus is screamed, even louder, over and over and over again.
You really just don’t get it to you.
You're plain lying now. Is that somehow supposed to convince me of your position? Wow. Just wow.
Your own linked document tries to use Josephus to discount Herod's killing of the Jewish infants. Yet here is what Josephus says about Jesus. Here we have a contemporary writer , not one generation removed from the story, historical figure claiming that Jesus is the Christ
Where is the source material for the claim that Socrates had wise men from the east deliver frankincense and myrrh? The Anacalypsis was written in the 1800's by a different rabid atheist. I find no original source material for the claim. Maybe you should do some research on each of the claims made in this link. As for me, I know that Jesus is real.
It's a curious thing, but not uncommon. I wouldn't really bother engaging with uk9994 on this topic, as she is convinced she is right and appears to be deeply satisfied with her own interpretations, and appears quite unable to recognize some of the biases and emotional programming that underlies them.
Part of the lies that work on some people are to generate a projected interpretation of Christ that is <undesirable> and then establish that as the sticking point, on which all future rejections can work.
Example, the idea that "Jesus needed to be murdered and tortured so that sinful people could go to heaven". I mean, that really is archaic, primary school (elementary school) conceptualization of Christ and is purpose. And, obviously, it's an ugly one.
And because it's so crude and crass and obviously immature, it provides a great foundation for UK9 to reject, blame and reaffirm her own interpretations (and antithetical interpretations delivered by others to her).
It's exactly like seeing the corruption and evil that infiltrated and undermined so much of the Catholic Church, or the faults and flaws of religion as a whole, and using that as a justification for why Communism is the great liberator - a 19th century idea that gave so much power to Marxism.
Tell me that the sun is just an illusion! Tell me that when I breathe, I'm NOT breathing air. Tell me that every day I live my life, I'm not really here or that I don't really have a family. Reality is experienced, and cognized, and resonates.
If you have experienced Jesus on some level, you can no more denier the reality of him than you can of the existence of the sun, ths stars, or of your own breathing lungs.
But whereas these things are experiences of an objective material reality, a reality virtually forced upon us by the fact that we cannot always keep our eyes, ears, nose, skin, etc, closed, contrastively, one is able to either open or close one's mind, and thus, certain realities that can only be experienced subjectively can be forever kept out of our mind and our experience.
That's why pursuit of and experience of the truth is such a challenging thing. It requires personal choice and responsibility, and a willingness to face the internal challenges that come with recognizing the flaws and faults underlying my own personality and heart.
Appeal to antiquity fallacy and not true.