To: average joe who wrote (21137 ) 2/10/2012 7:42:35 PM From: Solon Read Replies (2) | Respond to Socrates yes. Homer..certainly not the entire author. Jesus, IMO--nothing resembling anything that has been cobbled together. If you read the article you responded to thoughtfully (and being careful to look for factual errors which would obviously discredit it) you will come to the last paragraph which is the very most I can offer as a sop to all the innumerable "gospels" that were invented by an underground mystic cult. When you put all those arguments together there is simply no room for such a person as fictionalized in the "gospels". One of the many REAL philosophers and writers and thousands of ordinary people would have known of these incredible events and anchored them to history. Jewish Saints DID NOT come out of their graves and go visiting about Jerusalem dropping slime and old bones where they went. SOMEBODY would have heard and the stories would have gotten to Philo or somebody! However, I would truly like to know if you find any of those arguments of the article faulty? For instance, the fact that "Nazareth" did not exist at that time and that the gospels were CLEARLY and deliberately (especially Matthew) fabricated to pretend a coherent structure of dogma. earlychristianwritings.com "John E. Remsburg, in his scholarly work on "The Christ," compiled a list of forty-two writers who lived and wrote during the time or within a century after the time of Christ and not one of whom ever mentioned him.
