Ever hear of "The Quest for the Historic Jesus"?

Question

Scholar after scholar has undertaken this quest. ALL have come up empty!

There were many chroniclers of the times in which he is said to have lived. NONE of them mention Jesus. None! Kind of strange for someone who is said to have attracted crowds to his preaching, and worked all kinds of miracles. The silence speaks volumes.
The fact is, JESUS NEVER EXISTED! He's a fictional character! He's just the Jewish version of the old Mystery-Cult god-man: the kind that was always born of a virgin, on Dec. 25, who dies on a tree (Acts 5:30,10:39,13:29; Gal, 3:13) and rises from the dead.

Gentiles who didn't know any better started thinking the story was a real historical occurrence. They seized control of government and forced the delusion on others. They wiped out the Gnostic Christians who knew the whole story was an instructive myth. (How nice of them.)
But the fact remains: Ain't no Jesus-- never was! You confound yourself by believing a delusion.

"There is nothing more negative than the result of a critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the Kingdom of God, who founded the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, and who died to give his work its final consecration, never had any existence. This image has not been destroyed from without, it has fallen to peices, cleft and disintegrated by the concrete historical problems which came to and surfaced one after another."

-- Albert Schweitzer

"These repeated forgeries and falsification create a well-founded suspicion that all the cases spoken of concernign the person called Jesus Christ are made cases, on purpose to lug in-- and that very clumsily-- some broken sentences from the Old Testament, and apply them as prophecies of thsoe casess; and that so far from him being the Son of God, he did not even exist as a man-- that he was merely an image or allegorical character, such as Apollo, Hercules, Jupiter, and all the other deities of antiquity were. There is no history written at the time Jesus Christ is said to have lived that speaks of the existence of such a person, even as a man."

-- Thomas Paine

Josephus was born in the year 38, so he could not have seen Jesus firsthand. And modern scholars have concluded that the passage in his writing that refers to Jesus was interpolated by a later Christian who was offended at the absence of any mention. I point the finger at Hippolytus, the first "Anti-Pope".

History books written AFTER the lfie of Jesus can provide no first-hand testimony. They all repeated the then-common belief that Jesus had existed, but they are not in a position to KNOW that as a fact. I do not cite "fanatics" or cranks, but legitimate and respected scholars like Rudolph Bultmann, as well as Schweitzer (above).

Answer 1

Bingo. Modern biblical scholarship makes a very compelling case for the idea that Jesus never existed... that he was, in fact, entirely fictional.

The Jesus Puzzle
http://jesuspuzzle.humanists.net/home.htm

Answer 2

Funny all the history books I have read and studied speak of Jesus in history and say just the opposite of what you are. Better take another look at some history books that are written by true historians and not just some fanatics that want to disprove any existence of Jesus. Get an unbiased history book and you will find far different things than what you have stated.

Answer 3

I think if you are going to open a subject like this for discussion, you should give us the names of at least a couple of the chroniclers you mention. That was we can research it for ourselves and see if we agree with you. Otherwise you are asking us to just take your word for it.

Answer 4

Blame early Christians. Jesus wrote and wrote and wrote and the early Christians wanted their religion to be in their image rather than Jesus'sl, so they burned his writings. Sad, sad, sad.

Answer 5

What about the historian Josephs?

Answer 6

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JESUS EXIST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AND WILL COME BACK TO TAKE HIS PEOPLE AND THRU HIM YOU WILL FIND ETERNAL LIFE. YOU ARE READING BOOKS THAT DOES'NT BRING YOU PEACE AND JOY IN LIFE.......READ THE BIBLE AND STOP YOUR DOUBTS BECAUSE THE ANSWER IS ONLY IN THE BIBLE.....