If Jesus didn’t exist, how did such a myth change history?

Answer 1

"If Jesus did not really rise from the dead, three questions are unanswerable: Who moved the stone? Who got the body? and Who started the Resurrection myth and why? What profit did the liars get out of their lie?

I will tell you what they got out of it. They got mocked, hated, sneered and jeered at, exiled, deprived of property and reputation and rights, imprisoned, whipped, tortured, clubbed to a pulp, beheaded, crucified, boiled in oil, sawed in pieces, fed to lions, and cut to ribbons by gladiators. If the miracle of the Resurrection did not really happen, then an even more incredible miracle happened: twelve Jewish fishermen invented the world's biggest lie for no reason at all and died for it with joy, as did millions of others. This myth, this lie, this elaborate practical joke transformed lives, gave despairing souls a reason to live and selfish souls a reason to die, gave cynics joy and libertines conscience, put martyrs in the hymns and hymns in the martyrs — all for no reason. A fantastic con job, a myth, a joke.

A myth indeed. That idea is the myth. The miracle is the sober fact." - Peter Kreeft

Answer 2

If Buddha didn’t exist, how did such a myth change history?

If Vishnu didn’t exist, how did such a myth change history?

If Zeus didn’t exist, how did such a myth change history?

If Osiris didn’t exist, how did such a myth change history?

If Odin didn’t exist, how did such a myth change history?


Budd ah and Vishnu have been revered and worshiped a lot longer than Jesus.

Osiris was worshiped for longer than Jesus has been, Zeus and Odin lasted for hundreds of years.

By your argument Vishnu, Osiris and Buddha are more likely to have been real than Jesus.

So, when are you going to convert?

Answer 3

Easy, it didn't. History has never changed, it's only played out accordingly. Romans were conquerors, as well as elitists. The emperor chose the religion and the people followed it. If you ever get a chance to go to Europe, take a look around, there are still remnants of older religions everywhere you look. The Jesus myth is just the currently popular myth. Have you noticed that in Islamic countries, Jesus didn't "change history" anywhere near as much as Muhommad did? In Israel, Jesus didn't change a thing. The only places that run with the Jesus myth the way the U.S. does are places that aren't aware of the facts, or ignore the facts, much like the U.S.

If you are a believer, great, good for you, but can you answer this question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsfA8nCJ24zQp5qh.3jppZHd7BR.;_ylv=3?qid=20070910085131AAyr39y

Answer 4

Read Revelation 16:19-21

Answer 5

Actually, academia isn't unanimous on his historical existence. And the myth was a major force in Mediterranean thought thousands of years before the name Jesus got attached to it. Anyway, your language is sloppy. The myth didn't change history, people did while serving or being served by the myth. How did Christianity change history? By marrying a kind of bronze-age hippie fanaticism to the Roman military machine.

Answer 6

Dan Brown has in one book rewritten the way that an entire generation view the Illuminati, and that was a made-up story. One man, one book, yet people believe his version. Dan's myth has changed the present, and in time (all it takes is 1 or 2 generations) believers of his story will replace those who actually know what happened.

If one man can do it with one book, just imagine how much more can be done by a bunch of skilled people writing down the bible as a control document. Enough said?

Answer 7

It didn't change history, man's history is ruled by religions. A different one consuming the others has been repeated throughout the years in every society and culture.

Answer 8

The story of Jesus, first off, is based on nothing but Paganism and the story of Mithras. Out of a time where panic, fear, inscurity and wars were prevelant, people latched onto anything...Christianlity just happen to win the 'belief wars'

Answer 9

Jesus did exist and it has already been proven. It's not a myth, it's fact.

Answer 10

lol. Excellent one. Get ready for all the "Well so and so believed in Zeus", or "What about about alluh?"- you know- the ones listed in college English literature classes under "mythology". Christ very obviously existed and anyone who says He didn't is merely a desperate, amusing, fool of the worst kind.