Reply #31: Faith has nothing to do with being a Jesus scholar [View All]

[kcwayne]

A vast majority of Christians that worship Jesus are not scholars either, and in fact have a miniscule knowledge of what he is purported to have said, let alone have any clue about the origins of their faith.

It doesn't take belief to assimilate facts and make an opinion on them. Even the Apostle Paul doesn't refer to a historical Jesus, he refers to the holy spirit of Jesus.

For my part, I think that it is quite telling that God appears on earth, performs miracles that are heralded throughout the land, dies to save everyone from eternal hell fire, and no one thinks to write anything down about it for 50-100 years. No one saves any artifacts. There is no trace of any miracle, or any incontrovertable piece of evidence of the most unique thing to ever happen in human history.

Well that is not quite true. The legends of Mithras, Dionysus, Osirus, and others have many of the same characteristics as the Jesus story (born of a God through a virgin birth, performs miracles, dies an agononizing death with some purity symbology, and in Mithras's case, was born on Dec 25). But of course, in spite of all those similarities, these other stories are just stories, while the Jesus story is true, even though there is no evidence to differentiate the Jesus story from the others, we just "know" it is true because ... of faith.