Reply #272: Oh, I do think I've proved something. [View All]

[okasha]

Not necessarily what you had in mind, though.

Look, phrenzy. You obviously can't address the historical context in which Christianity, and Jewish eschatology before it, arose. You have no credibility until you do. End of that discussion.

Now, you've noticed that the story of the gospels, and especially the events of Jesus' life and death, fit an archetypal pattern. Bully for you. Hundreds of thousands of people have been there before you. I suggest you get away from the websites and do some serious reading. Start with something nice and thick about Roman Judea. Then read Campbell and some European history. Notice that some indisputably historical people fit the same pattern of savior-who-dies-for-the-land.

"Oh, and is that you trying to be funny? Using the excluded Christian Gospels as 'evidence' of his historicity?"

Nope. Just answering your demand that I name some extra-Biblical works that claim first hand knowledge of a real Jesus. With some Gnostic texts.

Now--get thee to a library.