(06-29-2022, 03:02 PM)jimhabegger Wrote:(06-29-2022, 02:56 PM)eider Wrote: Easy! If you download Paul's letters then you can use 'search' with the name 'Jesus' and you will see that there isn't a single anecdote or story about anything that Jesus said or did.
I did that already. I found three possible examples, but for my purposes in that search there would need to be many more.
Your three possible examples are probably to do with the last supper (leading to the wine/bread ritual)....... but there's nothing about Jesus the man, any accounts of his 'miracles', or of his sayings etc.......
Christianity is very wary of Jesus the man, who loved his wine and not-so-nice mates, who was dismissive of family in favour of true friends, who insisted that unreasonable wealth amongst the unreasonable poor was wicked, who supported the poor laws, strict rules for creditors and caused commotion and criminal damage in the Great Temple two days running....etc etc....... Christians don't like this bloke, not their idea of 'God come as man'..... I'm tellin' yer!
But Christians don't have any trouble with mythers, folks who declare that 'It's all a myth!'. Mythers are no danger to Christianity at all. The most common 'All myth' claim that the general public now puts down as 'bad', 'nasty', 'dangerous' is the claim that the Holocaust is all myth, maybe that's how the 'Christianity mythers' get dismissed as wombles at the least, crazies at the worst.
Recognising that Jesus was a bloke who could get sloshed with his mates, who dumped poor family for good mates, who could cause outrage, criminal damage and commotion in the Temple........ now that's the fella Christianity wants to push under the carepet, methinks. ....... and it was (on the balance of probabilities) true!
