Originally Posted by
Cypress
I am referring to the historical Jesus.
The Jesus who miraculously fed large crowds with two fish and a loaf of bread is obviously an embellishment of the New Testament, and cannot be confirmed historically.
We actually have virtually no writing which actually survives from the first century. Ancient writing is almost never physically or chemically capable of surviving for two thousand years.
What we have are hand-written copies of copies of copies of copies of copies of copies, relentlessly hand copied over many centuries.
The Romans would have had to deem any "arrest records" of a Jewish peasant so important, they would had to have had committed government bureaucrats over the decades and centuries to repeatedly hand-copy the "arrest" record and rap sheet of Jesus, and commit to doing so over the course of centuries.
I really do not think that passes the laugh test.
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