Sorry - that’s circular logic. Cannot base proof on bible book. That’s like saying sea serpents are real because there are stories about them. Josephus is acknowledged by scholars as fake. There are ZERO contemporary accounts because there were no events to document. Snake god, fish god, sun god, fire god - all the…

And his buddies - who were all peasants speaking Aramaic - had learned Greek and were well versed in the cutting edge of NeoPlatonic philosophy.

You seem to have misinterpreted what people mean by “contemporary sources”.

It’s about modern scholarship evaluating the old ones including those recently discovered with a greater degree of knowledge and integrity.

Does the famous paid Russian troll army exist, or is it a phantasm hatched by febrile imaginations? I troll therefore I am, but that doesn’t prove I’m being paid by the Russian government, nor does it prove I won Wisconsin for Trump in 2016 with $2,000 worth of Facebook ads. But I might have.

That was one of things that really ruined the Jesus story for me, the commonality of his name and pastime.

Who were they worshipping? Brian. Duh.

Scientology had a sizable cult of followers 30 years after Hubbard made it all up. Doesn’t follow that it’s based on something real.

And what word of his great friend in Rome. Biggie Dickus. Commander of a crack Legion.

They were apocolyptic worshippers (believed the world was ending) so I doubt it was a Jewish separatist. Though I guess it could be a separatist who also believed the world was ending. Considering that eastern mystery religions were huge in Rome at that point, a messianic figure makes more sense. Why would random…

Pedantic correction, but the New Testament isn’t translated from Latin. It’s translated from Greek - pretty basic Greek for the most part. That’s why Jerome’s Latin translation was called the vulgate. Translating it from Greek into the “vulgar” tongue.

The Peoples front of Judea did exist right.

There’s never been any reliable proof that cats and dogs can exist in the same room together. Just lots of photoshopped pictures and forged videos on the internet.

I think the most damning evidence (no pun intended) against the existence of Jesus is the lack of reference by historians of the time period. Any mention of him by Jewish historian Josephus or Roman historian Tacitus, seems to be believed by most scholars as “Christian interpolation or forgery”, after the fact.

Especially if you define “actual historic Jesus Christ” to include the things that make him, well, Jesus.

Cats and dogs living together?

Yup - it is as the wad of meat describes.

While your theory is interesting, I’m not quite so convinced that I’m ready to start jumping off buildings, dodge bullets and hassan chop every douche in a tight suit and goofy sunglasses.

How would anybody in Rome find out about Jesus? Somebody from Judea would have come to Rome saying that the long-predicted Messiah had come and was executed and that they knew him or something. There would be no way for followers to verify the information, nor really a need — the beginning of the Common Era was a…

Like Xanderpuss says, Jesus’s actual name was Yeshua ben Joseph — so, “Josh, the son of Joe” — which would have been a common name at the time. Christ just means “the anointed one” in Greek, so it’s not like you can search the records for that name. (His mom wasn’t “Mrs. Christ,” for instance.) And as a peasant from…

If kids are good enough for Joseph, they’re good enough for Paddock. Go evangelicals!