Pretty much all information we have about this guy is derived from texts written by his followers 100 years after the fact. Our historical understanding of what happened is close to zero unless we lean into the aforementioned gospels.
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Well, something clearly happened that made a handful of oppressed Jewish community to buck their strong Jewish faith tradition, stop fearing executions by the Romans/ Pharisees, and death by plague as they took care of pagan community, and here we are 1/3 of the world strong, two millennia later.
aug 26, 2025, 4:42 am • 0 0 • view
Yes - but there is no primary source evidence that any of what's written in contradictory (to one another) gospels is historically accurate & not wildly embellished. It's the difference between faith & fact imo. One can believe the words, but the evidence for specific events is lacking. 1/2
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The earliest gospel is Mark and was written around the 2nd Temple destruction. ~30ish years post-Jesus. Even that gospel is not a primary source (Mark was not hanging with JC) and you need to employ faith to take the events as laid out in the text as factual. 2/2
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Imagine if I wrote now arguing Bush was president in 1995, & no other recording can be found, will I get away with it? No cuz there would be a lot of ppl still living that would refute it. U think just cuz it's old times ppl could get away with claiming resurrection? Even Thomas didn't blv that.
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