• Tinidril
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    3 months ago

    Some version of Jesus absolutely existed, since is was a pretty common name. Street preachers were not uncommon either, so it’s very possible that there was one named Jesus.

    The real debate about whether Jesus existed is whether any of the biblical stories are at all accurate. There is No reason to think they are.

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      3 months ago

      Also he was supposedly very prominent but apparently no historian or political writer back then recorded anything about him.

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      3 months ago

      Weird, I read that jesus was not a common name at the time and that it would have been something like yusuf in reality if he was real

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        3 months ago

        “Jesus” is a Latin translation of a Greek translation of the Hebrew name Yeshua so, yes, “Jesus” wasn’t literally a common name in Israel. It was actually Yeshua (יְהוֹשֻׁעַ,) that was a common name.

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      3 months ago

      absolutely existed

      vs

      it’s very possible

      are two wildly different claims which cannot co-exist.

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        3 months ago

        Except they were two different claims. “Some guy named Jesus existed”, and “Some guy named Jesus was a street preacher”.