Er ... really? Got those proofs to hand?The only proofs come to us from Rome, who are the only source of any notion about a literal Jesus.
LOL! So wrong!!! You really don't get history. Pitch that idea to anyone who knows what he's talking about, and you'll be laughed out of court.You cannot find anything else on this guy, he is another solar savior, this time attempting to bring the Jews under Rome's control as they were being a nuisance.
Oh dear ... this is typical of the chasm between popular scepticism and expert opinion. Suffice to say that scholars of every field that touch upon the subject – and I am ignoring theologians – are quite happy to assert that Jesus existed, based on the evidence.If Jesus ever really lived, you'd expect a little more evidence...
You guys really need to get up to speed on contemporary scholarship.
And stop believing everything you read on the web.Indeed, until the Council of Nicea ...
Ah, this is another common and popular modern idea. It's attraction is it reduces the idea of Christ to an abstraction, and when you ask what ideal or principle is being put forward, you invariably end up with an image that uncannily reflects the ideology of the person pushing it ... 'the Jesus of our own invention' as I believe someone said.Rather, it is more like a principle, an ideal.