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lostsheep wrote
Wow. So when were the actual accounts by Jeebus' supposed followers written? Were these followers--Mathew Mark Luke John---not real people either?
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I am glad that you asked!
In the first century AD, Rome was replete with mystery religions. There were hundreds of different cults that worshiped gods, like Adonis, Dionysus, Mithra, and Osiris. Many of these gods were savior / redeemer type gods, who were believed to save mortals from one evil or another. Followers of these cults engaged in ritual worship of their gods that included anointing, sacrifices, special meals, and ritual cleansing. Some of them drank the ceremonial blood of their gods, ate their flesh, were baptized in holy water or blood, etc. Sound familiar?
(Most of the information surrounding the details of these mystery religions was destroyed later by the Christians, who spent nearly two thousand years trying to erase the origins of their religion from history in order to invent a new story.)
Even Julius Caesar invested in the political support of the believers of redeemer gods. He made himself a god. After his death, much of the lore and symbolism surrounding Caesar would later be borrowed by the Christians to embellish their newly-wrought god.
Jesus was almost certainly invented between 40 & 50 CE by Paul the apostle. Paul was the first Christian, and the father of Christianity. Although there were many messiahs to choose from at the time, Paul rejected them, as he received "heavenly visions" about the one true messiah. The name "Jesus" comes from the Tanach - Yahu'shuah which means "god saves".
English = Jesus
Latin = Iesus
Greek = lesous
Arabic = Yeshuah
Hebrew = Yahu'shuah
Will the real slim shady please stand up?
Paul invented the Jesus character, and made up the framework for his fictitious life. Later Christian writers would continue to build the work of fiction. Mathew, Mark, Luke, John, etc, are all complete bullshit. They were not real people. They never existed. Just as Jesus never existed.