(06-27-2022, 09:20 PM)eider Wrote:(06-27-2022, 12:27 PM)Rhythmcs Wrote: Any number of reasons. One being that some of them were perfectly okay with believing in magic men and competing gods. Another that they were responding to christian claims in kind (as we often do on boards when we assume someone elses argument for the sake of conversation). Then, ofc, there's the niggling tidbit that we do know that alot of people thought it was completely made up. We call these people "non-christians"..and they outnumbered believers by a fair margin at the dawn of proto christianity. There were even, as I mentioned before...apparently... people who didn't believe in the jesus legend or myth that -did- believe in the christ myth. Swirling around all of that, there were then and were before and are now and there have always been people who didn't believe in -any- of this horseshit, of any kind. We've got people on record calling every single invention of priests a con to fleece the faithful before this jesus or christ was a twinkle in said con mens eyes.
The notion that no one doubted christ or jesus is christian apologetic framing, not a historic reality.
But when a critic can describe Jesus's followers, rumours about his true birth (which click with the Sepphoris history) then I'll take note of that. The negatives sometimes can ring true whereas the proposed positives can look like rubbish...to me.
scholars say there was no Jesus legend that grew and virtually all scholars say Jesus was not a myth
