All the historical evidence for Jesus in one room(lemmy.world)

I already provided evidence for my position. If you would like to provide references that refute the Wikipedia pages on these topics I will be happy to read them.

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afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldOP

-5 points

1 year ago

Dumping a link is not providing evidence. Let’s start with something basic:

Please show me a single contemporary record of his life or even a single record of someone after his death who personally saw something.

Not what someone heard, not a fifty year old oral account, not a Bayesian analysis. A direct peice of evidence. Which should be really easy for you to provide since the gospels make it clear that he was famous.

When you find that piece of evidence let me know.

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fkn@lemmy.worldM

3 points

1 year ago

That’s not how this works. Go gish gallop elsewhere.

To refute your only relevant point in this post:

Dumping a link is not providing evidence.

I made a claim and I linked a specific article as a source.

You are making a fringe claim. Even if you were an expert, which you are not, the claim you are making is a fringe argument.

I backed that position up with a specific article (which also has sources) explicitly stating backing up my position.

If you have a relevant source refuting this, I will happily continue this discussion.

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afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldOP

-4 points

1 year ago

Right so if you could just point out the evidence instead of link dropping that would be great. Something like a single eyewitness account written during the time he was alive. You do have evidence for your claim, yes?

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fkn@lemmy.worldM

3 points

1 year ago

Once again, I already provided evidence for my claim. What about my evidence is unsatisfactory?

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theneverfox@pawb.social

0 points

1 year ago

That’s essentially what the gospels were - the story and beliefs of Jesus passed on in the oral tradition of the rabbis before being written down a few generations later

As for like, bureaucratic forms? It was 2000 years ago, so by the time we started to care we basically are left with only whatever happened to be preserved in a collapsed building no one cared to demolish or rebuild - libraries and record halls tend to get burned down over the years. This is at a time when writing was expensive and a rare skill - it would be extremely strange for a record of a trial of a revolutionary run by a Pontius (basically the lowest rank of administrator sent to back water provinces) to have kept detailed records of executions (the Romans were extremely hierarchical and did a lot of executions)

Plus, the movement grew big enough to catch the attention of the local ruler (and the collaborating religious leadership who pushed for his execution) in the span of months. There was every incentive for uprising to be suppressed - it would be an embarrassment that they’d have every incentive to keep quiet

By the time anyone even started to consider that this Jesus guy was more than a run of the mill revolutionary in some backwater the empire barely cared about, it was because the ideas had spread to the point they started to threaten Roman rule. Probably through the Roman legions, who were largely conscripts sent to the other side of the empire “earning” the right to be Roman (part of the reason why there were so many uprisings)

During the time he was alive, no one took up arms or disrupted trade. By the time the nobility even heard his name, it was decades later - and at this point, we do have the odd surviving correspondence mentioning the issue

Frankly, I would be extremely skeptical of any document describing Jesus when he was alive - I think the only record there was a Pontius Pilates is some military discharge record of someone with that name in the right time and with enough honors to corroborate his existence

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