I have an image in my mind of an orange Jesus grifting and taking bribes to put certain things into the religion for his friends. I have never seen any evidence Jesus actually existed and isn’t an just an ancient allegory.
if- and yes that’s a very big if- we accept that Jesus had some type of “ministry” he was probably on the level of a proverbial traveling snake oil saleman, selling fake miracles and shit. The iron being, that the reason snake oil salesmen were a thing was because snake oil did have some medicinal properties. Which is more than can be said for random exorcisms and stuffing spit-daubed mud in the eyes.
The gospels were written so far away from where it all supposedly happened that no one was going to go back and check. which is why they were working off the septuagint for the gospels of mathew and luke. and none of the gospels were written by the people they’re attributed to, they’re all anonymous.
one of the more fun examples of an insertion is the whole virgin birth thing. (Isaiah 7:14, when properly translated says nothing about a virgin giving birth. The word used was ‘Almah’, which was translated into the septuagint as ‘parthenos’. Parthenos basically also meant young woman, but then in christian literature came to mean a virgin, specifically. A mistake they would have caught had they been reading the scriptures in the original language.
Literally every single “and this was to fulfill that” sort of prophecy they claim is like that. It’s either not a prophecy, or so obviously not about jesus that it’s laughable. (The actual prophecy in Isaiah 7 was about the enemies of King Ahaz, three kingdoms including Israel, who were allies against Ahaz. God was promising to wipe them out. the kid only served as a sort of clock.)
I have an image in my mind of an orange Jesus grifting and taking bribes to put certain things into the religion for his friends. I have never seen any evidence Jesus actually existed and isn’t an just an ancient allegory.
if- and yes that’s a very big if- we accept that Jesus had some type of “ministry” he was probably on the level of a proverbial traveling snake oil saleman, selling fake miracles and shit. The iron being, that the reason snake oil salesmen were a thing was because snake oil did have some medicinal properties. Which is more than can be said for random exorcisms and stuffing spit-daubed mud in the eyes.
The gospels were written so far away from where it all supposedly happened that no one was going to go back and check. which is why they were working off the septuagint for the gospels of mathew and luke. and none of the gospels were written by the people they’re attributed to, they’re all anonymous.
one of the more fun examples of an insertion is the whole virgin birth thing. (Isaiah 7:14, when properly translated says nothing about a virgin giving birth. The word used was ‘Almah’, which was translated into the septuagint as ‘parthenos’. Parthenos basically also meant young woman, but then in christian literature came to mean a virgin, specifically. A mistake they would have caught had they been reading the scriptures in the original language.
Literally every single “and this was to fulfill that” sort of prophecy they claim is like that. It’s either not a prophecy, or so obviously not about jesus that it’s laughable. (The actual prophecy in Isaiah 7 was about the enemies of King Ahaz, three kingdoms including Israel, who were allies against Ahaz. God was promising to wipe them out. the kid only served as a sort of clock.)