re: #282 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Jesus could be another instance of borrowing from other religions as there were many in that time that had a christ-like figure. Borrow bits and pieces from each (or some stories outright) and poof, a story about a person born to a virgin who performs a bunch of miracles, challenges orthodoxy, provides hope to an oppressed people and is, in the end, killed and then rises again to “heaven”.

I’ve read that before. The “Jesus-myth” theory.

Let’s be honest. I can’t and won’t put that idea outside the realm of possibility. I think it’s also possible that there was a Jesus, a rabbi or itinerant preacher perhaps like John the Baptist, who came to some unpleasant end at the hands of the Romans, but certainly not as it’s portrayed in the New Testament.

If Jesus had been tried by Pontius Pilate, I think that would’ve entered the Roman historic annals.