Obviously this only applies to people who believe in him at all...
2007-08-10 00:08:21 · 26 answers · asked by linkwaker007 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I ask this because I've fairly intensive studies on the Ancient Near East, and Jesus seems to be an archetype... there are at least 10 earlier stories that speak of a man with all the odd characteristics that Jesus is attributed with, like the Virgin birth, the Three Kings, etc, in both Egyptian and Assyrian legend.
2007-08-10 00:20:12 · update #1
Jesus is a myth, he may have lived as a person (which is highly debatable) , After his death jesus was transformed into something completely mythologial drwing from Jewish and many many pagan sources. his miracles, birthday, death ,vigin birth, none of it is original at all. there are 0 first had accounts written of him (please spare me the writtings of 30 years later this is a miracle working son of god, not your average person of history) and many later accounts have been grossly manipulated.
2007-08-10 00:22:43 · answer #1 · answered by Gawdless Heathen 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Dude, after 200 hundred years your great great great grandchildren might not even know who you were and what you did!!!
For them you could even be myth!
Time does this to people because they live for a short time.
An incident which happened today becomes a remembrance tommorow, a year later it was 'just there', 5 years later it becomes 'was it really?' and by the time we are dead and long gone...who in blazes is going to know!?!
Jesus, Buddha, Lord Ram all of them did exist. But the memory is so old we need 'proof' and mind you their names would not even be here if they did not!
You cannot get to create some story of a man and get thousands of followers even after thousands of years!!!
2007-08-10 07:20:59 · answer #2 · answered by Cyrene J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was an actual living person. It has been proven time and time again. People just have a greater debate on whether He was the Son of God or not. People just have a hard time accepting the truth. Sucks to be them.
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2007-08-10 07:35:55 · answer #3 · answered by dOll FaCe 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course Jesus was a living person, if one would dare call him just a person. There are references about Jesus outside of the Bible attesting to this. He took the sins of the world on himself, and lived the sinless life to satisfy the holiness of God. It is because of his life as well as his death on the cross that sinners can stand before a Holy God. His life satisfies God's righteousness requirements, and his death satisfies God's justice in regards to sin. This is how people who put their faith in Jesus Christ stand before a Holy God. He is the only one to meet this criteria, and that's why Jesus is the only way.
2007-08-10 07:20:56 · answer #4 · answered by peace to all 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He was a living person. Why would the temple priests and authorities be offended and arrest and kill a metaphor/idea. The historian, Josephus, mentions a man named Jesus who was crucified.
2007-08-10 07:22:04 · answer #5 · answered by Mrs.Blessed 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People reached out and touched Jesus. Thomas even put his finger in the holes in Jesus' wrist. Thousands saw and heard Him and were cured by Him. People were willing to be tortured and killed in His name. All of this testimony gives witness to His existence.
2007-08-10 07:17:12 · answer #6 · answered by Mary W 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think he's a kind of "Robin Hood" character. There were probably many "Jesuses" over the Centuries and they became homogenized into a single Biblical character.
The Jesus of the New Testament is nowhere to be found in Roman or Jewish written history.
2007-08-10 07:24:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
There was, without a doubt, a man named Jesus. This is well documented. He was a very charismatic person as he convinced many people to follow him. This too is well documented. The questions that come in is not did he exist, but rather was he truly God's son.
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2007-08-10 07:13:43 · answer #8 · answered by The PENsive Insomniac 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes of course he was real. It was provin in the bible and in history. God sent his only-begotten son, an angel in to the womb of a virgin. That was how he was born, by holy spirit. Later when he got baptized God spoke from heaven. He said "This is my son the beloved, whom I have approved." After his baptism he remembered everything from heaven and who he was then. The then began to preach about God and his kingdom to everyone he could.
2007-08-10 07:24:51 · answer #9 · answered by suzyqnelly 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thousands of people seen and heard Jesus' teachings everyday. Thousands seen him hanged on a cross and die, and thousands seen him alive after three days. To much proof to not believe.
2007-08-10 07:12:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋