re: #38 steve_davis

Uhm, Jesus is not fictional. His divinity may be fictional, depending on one’s personal beliefs, but a bunch of people wrote gospels based on their time spent running around with him, or running around with his immediate followers.

None of the New Testament was written by actual Apostles. The books of the New Testament were written by 3rd party accounts decades after the character of Jesus was supposed to have died. Many Christian cults had sprung up during this time and differing accounts competed for attention and scholarship.

The fact that contemporary accounts of the character of Jesus are non-existent during the time he was accounted as being alive serve as a disturbing for those believe out of pure faith that he indeed existed. The Rabbinical authorities as well as Romans were notorious for their record keeping and accounting of various rabble-rousers and trouble makers. The Jesus as described in the Bible appears nowhere in official documents, the “historian” Flavius Josephus gives accounts of Jesus and well as John the Baptist, but again, he only documents tales told to him by 3rd party stories decades after the fact and was never an eyewitness to any of these events or characters.