Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2017 13:26:20 GMT
Jun 14, 2017 9:41:32 GMT kls said:
If He didn't exist how did the earliest people who made up the claims in the first half of the first century AD fool others to think some non existent Jesus walked among them?
It was a very different time back then. No news media, the only way to know things was others telling you. So they spread stories of this amazing guy who preached such a message in such a place. It really wouldn't be hard at all to create such a legend.
No questioning why those who were where he was said to have preached never heard him or saw him?
Most people didn't travel far. Until a couple of centuries ago 90%+ of people never travelled more than 20 miles from where they were born in their entire lives. Nor did most people have any reliable method of knowing dates and times. So if you're spreading stories around you're very unlikely to find anybody contradicting you with "I was there on that day and I never saw it."
It's entirely possible no such person as jesus existed at all. Or that he's an amalgam of several different people. Or that he was a real person with, as you suggest, no divine attributes whose story was exaggerated.