The followers of Jesus wrote about him, the detractors of Jesus tried to make him go away. That was the motive behind the Jews having the Romans put Jesus to death! And many of those who did know of his existence didn't even believe in him!
Mark is an highly educated Greek writer using elements of mythic fiction like ring cycles, triadic inversions, a chisasmus that would never happen in real life and only in fiction and uses verbatim lines from the OT in the crucifiction narrative, re-works Pauls letters to create earthly stories and is 100% a religious myth.
The other gospels are -re-workings of Mark but with different religious/political viewpoints.
Dying/rising savior demigods were already happening in other nearby religions. This and many other additions to Judaism in Christianity can be shown to be from Hellenism.
The Greeks occupied Israel in the Hellenistic era and greatly influenced their theology. These stories are not real.
There is NO peer reviewed historical material by historians that were living at the times of Jesus and his enemies certainly weren't interested in preserving records of his existence. Not long after Jesus left the Jews were overthrown and Jerusalem sacked as Jesus predicted! We don't have peer reviewed written history for a lot of things!
First that is incorrect. Rome did not care about Christianity. During the 2nd century it grew and Gnosticism was the largest movement:
"The Ante-Nicene period saw the rise of a great number of Christian
sects,
cults and
movements with strong unifying characteristics lacking in the apostolic period. "
- Gnosticism – second to fourth centuries – reliance on revealed knowledge from an unknowable God, a distinct divinity from the Demiurge who created and oversees the material world. The Gnostics claimed to have received secret teachings (gnosis) from Jesus via other apostles which were not publicly known, or in the case of Valentinius from Paul the Apostle. Gnosticism is predicated on the existence of such hidden knowledge, but brief references to private teachings of Jesus have also survived in the canonic scripture (Mark 4:11) as did warning by the Christ that there would be false prophets or false teachers. Irenaeus' opponents also claimed that the wellsprings of divine inspiration were not dried up, which is the doctrine of continuing revelation.[citation needed]
- Marcionism – second century – the God of Jesus was a different God from the God of the Old Testament.
- Montanism – second century – a pentecostal movement initiated by Montanus and his female disciples, featuring prophetic continuing revelations from the Holy Spirit.
- Adoptionism – second century – Jesus was not born the Son of God, but was adopted at his baptism, resurrection or ascension.
- Docetism – second to third century – Jesus was pure spirit and his physical form an illusion.
- Sabellianism – third century – the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three modes of the one God and not the three separate persons of the Trinity.
- Arianism – third to fourth century – Jesus, while not merely mortal, was not eternally divine and was of some lesser status than God the Father.[note 1]
In the middle of the second century, the Christian communities of Rome, for example, were divided between followers of Marcion, Montanism, and the gnostic teachings of Valentinus.
There were historians and they did record the fact that Christians were around and believed in the Gospels, Josephus and Tacitus mentioned people followed the Gospels. The actual events of Jesus were not reported because those are stories from a myth.
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As imperfect as they are there is enough left in the Gospels to for willing individuals to find Christ. Obviously, you are in the camp of people who wanted Jesus to go away.
No I don't want anyone to go away. It would be nice if people realized the stories are not real but people want to believe all kinds of myths so whatever.
The evidence is very clear that these stories are not real.
"Because you have seen Me, you have believed; blessed are those not having seen, yet having believed."
Krishna says, “Those who are not faithful in this devotional service cannot attain Me, O conqueror of enemies. Therefore they return to the path of birth and death in this material world.”
"..without faith we cannot attain Krishna."
Yes all Gods tell a follower to tell the people that you must have faith. Krishna is not real. No myth is real. Even if we were created we were not created to be fools who follow things that are obviously not true. After honestly looking at the evidence I realized no religion is true. It is not my fault the evidence is extremely clear.
You were probably told at some point that there is actually good reason to believe this story. I can't imagine that someone just said "hey believe this story" and you did.
Those lines were written because there was no evidence even at the time they were written and they needed ways to bring in members. You consider that evidence?? It's good to believe in me without proof, because I say so????
Christ is a presence now in spirit for those who truly desire to know him.
As my ex who was Muslim also used to say about Allah.
And another friend says about Krishna.
"“I am within everyone’s heart and I am giving remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness."
Ancient religions understood psychological manipulation and that people would ask why they should become a member of the religion. Obviously because the actual God or Demigod wasn't really going to show up.
My Hindu friend says she feels a relationship with Lord Krishna and he answers her and helps her. When we think a deity is real we completely can fool ourselves. I've done it myself.
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