• frankPodmore@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    No. But physical proof is not the standard we use for determining someone’s historical existence.

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      3 months ago

      Literary proof is, but also doesn’t exist for Jesus Christ.

      There’s a few mentions of just a “Jesus” but its not like no one else was named Jesus, and those don’t really make any mention of him being remarkable in any way.

      There’s just no evidence

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I have said this many times-

    It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if there was a “real” Jesus. The Jesus of the Bible, the Jesus that is worshiped is an impossibility. A fiction. His life is full of details that defy basic biological and physical laws. On top of that, nothing he supposedly said was written down at the time, so we have no idea if what is recorded to have been his sayings in the Bible are things he actually said.

    I always relate it to Ian Fleming having a schoolchum who’s father’s name was Ernst Stavro Bloefeld. So was there a real Ernst Stavro Bloefeld? Yes. Was he a supervillain fighting the world’s greatest secret agent? No.

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      3 months ago

      Listened through a history of rome podcast and learned an interesting thing where win was basically like a concentrate so you would mix it with water to drink. Aka. water -> wine.