What do we know about Jesus? The facts vs the myths

There are no “facts” about Jesus. Despite all the “miracles” the bible attributes to Jesus, no one living during his lifetime bothered to write a single word about the most amazing human being who ever lived … if the myths were true.

“Ho hum. There goes Jesus raising the dead, soaring into the clouds like Superman, walking on water, repeatedly raising the dead, etc. How boring. Ho hum. Let’s not tell anyone. Ho hum.”

When Roman historians finally began to write about Jesus, long after his alleged death, they were repeating alleged “facts” they had heard through Roman Christians, who had learned the “facts” from Jewish Christians. And still they never mentioned the “virgin birth” or the “cross” or the “resurrection” or the “ascension” or any of the other alleged “miracles” of Jesus.

Isn’t that odd?

The only reports we have of such “miracles” come from within the christian cult, and all the major “miracles” other than the alleged resurrection, which Mark admitted no one witnessed in the first-written gospel, went uncited by the earliest christian fathers for a hundred years or more after the alleged death of Jesus.

Should anyone believe what Moonies say about the “miracles” of their cult leader?

If someone tries to convince you to become a Moonie, should you accept what they say as “facts” or should you be skeptical as hell?

What historians said about Jesus without verification is hearsay, and the people spreading the gossip had a very clear agenda because the church’s wealth, power and very existence depended on people believing its tall tales.

How likely does this seem to you: Jesus heals the sick, raises the dead, walks on water, creates a huge following so that he is welcomed by cheering Jerusalem crowds as the Messiah and King of the Jews, is tried before Pilate and Herod, and crucified. Jesus’s death causes a three-hour eclipse (the longest eclipse on record was slightly more than seven minutes) and a rock-splitting earthquake that produces a ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. Yet no one bothered to write a single word about any of it?

“Ho hum. There goes Jesus raising the dead by the truckloads. How boring. Ho hum. Let’s not tell anyone. Ho hum.”

Everything about the so-called “passion of Christ” is ludicrously wrong:

• How could the authors of the New Testament know what Pilate’s wife said to him, or what the Sanhedrin said, did and thought behind closed doors?
• The Sanhedrin was not allowed to meet during Passover.
• The Sanhedrin was not allowed to hold trials at night.
• Someone had to defend the accused.
• The witnesses had to agree.
• A death sentence could be passed only in a legal court, not in a private home.
• Trials that resulted in death sentences were not allowed to be concluded in a single day.
• Neither the Jews nor the Romans had a “tradition” of releasing a prisoner during Passover.
• The name of the prisoner released, Barabbas, seems contrived for a purpose. Barabbas means “son of the father” and implies that the crowd preferred the murderous son of a human father to the perfect son of god!
• During Yom Kippur, when one scapegoat was murdered, another was set free. Clearly, Jesus was the scapegoat being murdered and Barabbas was the one being freed. In some accounts, he was even called Jesus Barabbas. What were the odds, unless the “passion” was a work of fiction?
• No one could have seen the temple curtain and the crucifixion at the same time, to know if the curtain was ripped in two before or after Jesus’s death. Furthermore, the gospels contradict each other about the order. Moreover, the curtain was not ripped because it would have been major news but no one mentioned it. Like everything else to do with the pretend trial and pretend crucifixion of Jesus.
• There has never been a three-hour eclipse — the longest eclipse on record was around seven minutes — thus a three-hour eclipse would have been worldwide news and would have scared the dickens out of half the planet. And yet no one wrote about this cataclysmic event despite the fact that there were many ancient astronomers.
• The ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE is ludicrous nonsense. So ludicrous that no bible writer other than Matthew would touch it.
• Rocks have more structural integrity than first-century houses, so an earthquake that split rocks would have leveled Jerusalem.
• The last words of Jesus Christ, if he really was god, or the son of god, would have been the most sacred words ever uttered by human lips. No true believer would think to put words in the mouth of the dying Savior or the World. And yet the authors of the New Testament did put words in Jesus’s mouth, having him say entirely different things on the cross, and thereby proving that they held nothing sacred.

In conclusion, we don’t have a single real fact about Jesus, but we can tell when we’re being bamboozled with ancient BS.