Some of the stories in the Bible are so far fetched that you really couldn't make it up but obviously someone did and as i have been painstakingly pointing out here, here, here, and here, they were not the early Christians.
There are now several books, Zealot by Reza Aslan, Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All by David Fitzgerald, and How Jesus Became God by Bart Ehrman which lean dangerously close to my own findings which explore the subject from the same angle and conclude that Christ and Christianity derived from earlier semi-divine beings from existing mythology which
developed over time into the gospels.
As well as basically the same myths being picked up and used, the authors go on to dispute that Jesus actually existed as a historical figure at all, putting him in the same fictional pile as Hercules, Eros and Oedipus.
They point to the lack of reliable historical sources as most of the accounts of Jesus of course come from Christian sources written centuries after his death and there is no mention at all of Jesus’ life between the ages of 12 and 30.
Of course, there may well have been a preacher called Jesus who inspired a great many people with his teachings but as for the whole being the Son of God thing and raising the dead, healing the sick and restoring the maimed, that would be stories made up for Crishna or Buddha who also cured the sick, the deaf and the blind. Could have been Ilorus the Egyptian saviour who did the same or
Esculapius of the Ancient Greek religions who strode around Greece performing the same miracles or even Bacchus, was a also a great performer of miracles, among which his changing of water into wine.
I fully expect my royalty cheque to cover my cost of my next holiday.
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