If Jesus had been an actual historical figure we have a thorny paradox. Either this Jesus was a remarkable individual who said and did a host of amazing, revolutionary things — but no one outside his fringe cult noticed for over a century. Or he didn’t — and yet shortly after his death, tiny communities of worshipers that cannot agree about the most basic facts of his life spring up, scattered all across the empire. The truth is inescapable: there simply could never have been a historical Jesus. .David Fitzgerald
About This Quote
The truth is inescapable: there simply could never have been a historical Jesus. This quote perfectly sums up what I was trying to get across with this blog. No matter how hard we try to uncover the real life stories of the great figures of the bible nothing ever comes out. The more we investigate what happened to Jesus, the less we find.
The more we look into the details of his life, the less certain we are about them. We can never be sure that a person existed when we are looking at various documents from when he was alive and from when he was dead.
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