Jesus...fact or fiction?

I think Jesus probably existed, even if Paul made him up....in which case Jesus could be interchangeable with Paul....the teachings of "insert name" are the teachings of somebody.

It's 100% certain that not everything the bible says about him is true - the contradictions are proof of that.

I think it's highly unlikely that 100% of what the bible says about him is false...even if he is actually a montage of real people and semi-real stories.

Therefore Occams Razor makes me think there was a Jesus.

you're gnomebody, till somebody loves you

Just remember he makes his living by being able to pretend to be what he is not.

Everybody knows what Jesus looked like, but it is not necessarily true. Earliest depictions of Jesus, in ancient Christian catacombs, showed him clean-shaven. The image we have of him is largely shaped by collective imagination and early artists.

Everybody knows what Jesus looks like? I don't. I can imagine what He looks like but I don't know. Equus, do you mean they know because of descriptions and renderings of people of those times?

Jesus is real, in that he is a primary archetypal image (myth) that taps deeply into the human psyche. That is why it is so hard for even non Christians to shake him off.

not really, i can shake him off my head at anytime and think of praying to god instead, when i pray to god, hes never in mind or soul, for god is greater than he is.



"She converted to Islam over a decade ago and looks back to an event in Sunday school as a harbinger of the change that was to come."



"The teacher told us that God sees and hears everything, but that he sent his son Jesus as an intermediary to the world," she recalls.

"I went home and told my mother that if God sees and hears everything, I don't need a mediator."

"Now, as a Muslim, if I pray for help, I pray directly,"




http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=106&sid=5416761

I wonder how many people who post here will be considered either fact or fiction......a couple thousand years from now.

Maybe we won't be considered at all.

oops.

But none of us will be considered a god, so in the context of the discussion, it wouldn't matter.

Speak for yourself, Edgarblythe!