Near-death study: Brains explode with activity as heart stops

[leftyladyfrommo]

69. There's a lot of evidence that Jesus did exist.

Just go back and read all of the Lost Gospels that are out there. There's a ton of stuff that was written very early. I think the Gospel of Thomas has been dated to just after the time of Christ.

And James, brother of Jesus and head of the church in Jerusalem, was well known and respected by many of the writers of the time. He was a strict vegetarian, wore all white clothes that were made of vegetable fibers like linen and cotton.

When you get masses of documents like this there had to be something besides a huge myth. And look at the Buddha. He lived some 500 years before Christ and there are masses of his teachings out there, too. No one doubts he existed. The difference is that he lived for some 80 years and spent 50 years teaching so many of his early teachings are available. Christ only taught for a couple of years and it was a while before any of it was written down.

I don't doubt that he existed. My guess is that he was a teacher a lot like the Buddha (who never claimed to be a god). Whatever he was his existence really packed a wallop in the culture of the time.