2007-06-15 07:06:55 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
given that all these peope are carrying this creative fiction around and propagating it like some rampant virus, I'd say that it's probably not going to happen that I admit that it's not there, because the concept is clearly out there to stay (at least for a while). The delusion will persist, so I have to acknowledge the existence of the delusion.
Now my admitting that it is a fiction...been there, done that...long time ago.
2007-06-15 07:15:46 · answer #1 · answered by Izzy F 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Do you mean there never was a Jesus? If that is your viewpoint, it is certainly not based on historical scholarship. There is significant uncertainty about the details, but no doubt about his existence. Not only do we have Tacitus' testimony (and he is hardly biased in favor of Christianity), but no one would have invented a story about a Messiah in which the individual was crucified. The historical evidence clearly points to the early Christian movement having made Messianic claims about an actual individual who had been crucified.
It is very easy for atheists to try to dismiss Jesus as a figment of the imagination. That approach is in many ways just like the fundamentalist doctrine of inerrancy. Both want to be able to either accept everything or dismiss everything. The task of a historian is much harder, and requires a painstaking critical review of each piece of evidence, some of which turns out to be authentic "beyond reasonable doubt", and some of which can with equal certainty be set aside as inauthentic.
If you are talking about whether Jesus continues to exist as a living presence today, then that is a different matter that no historian and no other empirical approach is going to be able to investigate.
2007-06-15 14:16:54 · answer #2 · answered by jamesfrankmcgrath 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your wrong Jesus Christ is real still living in me today ,when you look at a child that has just been born how can you say he's not real how do you think there here thought the gift of life maybe not to but to me his real i have faith
2007-06-15 14:35:42 · answer #3 · answered by Minnie J 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would anyone admit something that is untrue? There are many Jesus's. Its quite a popular name.
You realized that a more popularized englished form of Jesus is Joshua dont you? It would be absurd to claim there is no one named Jesus.
2007-06-15 14:12:32 · answer #4 · answered by Avatar_defender_of_the_light 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Just about the same time you admit there is a Jesus. two philosophies that differ--lets let God choose.
2007-06-15 14:14:19 · answer #5 · answered by j.wisdom 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If there is no Jesus, then how do you explain how my bushes keep getting trimmed every week?
2007-06-15 14:10:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nothing, as nothing would happen if there was Jesus.
2007-06-15 18:59:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure if the guy even existed. I really doubt this affects me I'm Jewish. I don't believe in him.
2007-06-15 14:18:08 · answer #8 · answered by rainy32 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a Jesus, but he was no son of God.
2007-06-15 14:15:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
NEVER...Jesus lives in my heart, mind and body...I know he is true...too bad you don't know this...
2007-06-15 14:15:45 · answer #10 · answered by Kerilyn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋