A man ahead of his time. source

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    I don’t think you read your own link:

    There is no scholarly consensus concerning the historicity of most elements of Jesus’s life as described in the Bible, and only two key events of the biblical story of Jesus’s life have been widely accepted as historical, based on the criterion of embarrassment, namely his baptism by John the Baptist and his crucifixion by the order of Pontius Pilate,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14] though even the baptism-narrative has been questioned.[15] Furthermore, the historicity of supernatural elements like his purported miracles and resurrection are deemed to be solely a matter of ‘faith’ or of ‘theology’, or lack thereof.[note 3]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

    • mcv@lemmy.zip
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      7 hours ago

      Not sure what your argument is here. You own quote says that:

      two key events of the biblical story of Jesus’s life have been widely accepted as historical

      Nobody here is arguing that everything ever written about him is historical, just that he existed.

    • Not_aBucket@slrpnk.net
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      9 hours ago

      You clearly didn’t read the link either bud.

      The idea that Jesus was a purely mythical figure has a fringe status in scholarly circles and has had no support in critical studies for more than a century, with most such theories going without recognition or serious engagement.[22][2][note 4]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus