Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Written while Jesus was still alive?

  You could disprove the existence of Socrates with this line of reasoning.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Are we talking about whether or not a historical person the Jesus of the Bible is based on existed or are we talking about whether or not there were any contemporary accounts? Because those are two very different things.

    As I suggested in the beginning, whether or not a “real” Jesus existed is not really relevant, because if we did, we know nothing about him except what was written a long time after he would have died, which we can’t trust. Which is the same reason not to trust Plato’s dialogues even if Socrates existed.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      if we did, we know nothing about him except what was written a long time after he would have died

      Hardly the first instance of a historical figure with unreliable historical accounts. You could make the same criticism of Egyptian pharaohs. They were deified in their eras, too. Their monuments were not completed until many of them were long dead. I guess we should just ignore them and pretend they had no impact on the course of history.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Where on Earth do you get the idea that monuments to pharaohs were not built within their lifetime? That’s absolutely untrue.

        It also misses my point.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    We aren’t out here trying to prove Socrates existed.

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