Why Jesus never existed, quotes by scholars. 82 percent of the words ascribed to Jesus in the gospels were not actually spoken by him, according to the Jesus seminar.-Jesus Seminar ... We dont have original copies of any of the gospels.We dont possess autographs of any of the books of the entire bible.The oldest surviving copies of the gospels date from about 175 a.d, an no 2 copies are precisely alike.And handmade manuscripts have almost always been corrected here and there, often by more than 1 hand.-Jesus Seminar There is no non-Christian records of Jesus before the second century.-Earl Doherty The temporal gap that separates Jesus from the first surviving copies of the gospels - 175 years - corresponds to the lapse in time from 1776- writing of the Declaration of Independence - to 1950. What if the oldest copies of the founding document dated only to 1950?-Jesus Semimar The evidence provided by the written gospels is hearsay evidence.Hearsay evidence is secondhand evidence.In the case of the gospels, the evangelist are all reporting stories and saying related to them by the intermediate parties; nome of them was an ear or eye witness of the words and events he recorded.The initial transmitters of traditions are, of course, anonymous; they cannot speak for themselves and we cannot interrogate them about the source of their reports.We dont even know who they were.The authors of the written gospels are also anonymous; the names assigned to the gospels are pious fictions. The 2 pictures painted by John and the synoptic gospels cannot both be historically accurate.Because the evidence offered by the gospels is hearsay evidence, scholars must be extremely cautious in taking the data at face value.-Jesus Seminar We dont have a single autograph of any book in the entire bible.- Tom Harpur We will never be able to claim certain knowledge of exactly what the original text of any biblical writing was.-Jesus Simimar The closer one gets to Jesus alleged time, the greater and more general is the Denial or ignorance of his existence.- Tom Harpur There is not a particle of evidence that Jesus of Nazareth ever existed.No detail of the story has been confirmed beyond reasonable doubt.-Daniel Leidner The words attributed to jesus in the 4th gospel(John) are the creation of the evangelist for the most part, and reflect the developed language of Johns Christian community.-Jesus Seminar It was not by any means the same religion in the 4 century that it had been in the 1st…. It plunged rapidly down the grade of deterioration “until in the 4th century it had completed its dire transformation into Christianism.- Tom Harpur Its has served is well, this myth of Christ.- Pope Leo X “The very thing which is now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients also, nor was it wanting from the inception of the human race until the coming of Christ in the flesh, at which point the true religion, which was already in existence, began to be called Christian.- St.Augustine “The whole of their errors… they derive from that…which is called the gospel of the Egyptians.”- Epiphanius (315-403) “Hebrew Sacred books were all Egyptian in ORGIN.-Dr.Anna Bonus Kingsford I will clearly document that there is nothing the Jesus of the gospels either said or did- from the sermon on the mount to the miracles, from his flight as an infant from Herod to the resurrection itself- that cannot be shown to have originated thousands of years before, In Egyptian mystery rites and other sacred liturgies such as the Egyptian book of the dead. - Tom Harpur Christianity began as a cult with wholly pagan ORGINS and motivations in the first century, an by the fourth it had utterly turned its back on paganism and repudiated every hint of connection with it.- Alvin Boyd Kuhn The Christian writers not only introduced new doctrines,legends,miracles and so forth- most of which we can trace to antecedent pagan sources- buy they took pains to destroy the pagan records and so obliterate the evidence of their own dishonestly.- Edward Carpenter The Egyptian mysteries of Isis and Osiris exerted considerable influence upon early Christianity.-Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
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