How can I put my trust in Jesus knowing he was a dirty Jew?

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Most historians think the Josephus reference is an interpolation by Christians in the middle ages, and possibly the one on John the Baptist too.

Could be.

I'll just say that with the limited knowledge we have, it seems far more likely that there was some religious guy in Israel around 2000 years ago that amassed a following, and those followers told/wrote myths about him in passing on his teachings, than some conspiracy where people completely fabricated his existence

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I find it more likely that a lot of the "myths" are true. He makes way too much sense for a human.

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Maybe some of them are, but others are clearly syncretically borrowed from the earlier legends of other religions (which is also quite common, the old testament is a rip off of the epic of gilgamesh written by the Jews during exile).

Virgin birth with visit from 3 magi, resurrection after three days, the association of christmas with the winter solstice, pretty much everything about easter (based on the pagan Oestara) and many other legends are borrowed down to the minute detail, making it very hard for me to believe these are historically accurate depictions of Jesus rather than a run of the mill instance of syncretism