So far as we know, Jesus did not write anything, nor did anyone who had personal knowledge of him. There is no archaeological evidence of his existence. There are no contemporaneous accounts of his life or death: no eyewitness accounts, nor any other kind of first-hand record. All the accounts of Jesus come from decades or centuries later; the gospels themselves all come from later times, though they may contain earlier sources or oral traditions. The earliest writings that survive are the letters of Paul of Tarsus, written 20-30 years after the dates given for Jesus's death. Paul was not a companion of Jesus, nor does he ever claim to have seen Jesus before his death.

L. Michael White

Tag: knowledge history archeology gospels historicity historicity-of-jesus epistles-of-paul pauline-epistles historicity-of-the-bible archeological-evidence-of-jesus death-of-jesus eyewitnesses-of-jesus historicity-of-the-gospels paul-of-tarsus

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Thousands of years before Christianity, secret cults arose which worshipped the sacred mushroom—the Amanita Muscaria—which, for various reasons (including its shape and power as a drug) came to be regarded as a symbol of God on earth.

When the secrets of the cult had to be written down, it was done in the form of codes hidden in folk tales.

This is the basic origin of the stories in the New Testament. They are a literary device to spread the rites and rules of mushroom worship to the faithful.

John Marco Allegro

Tag: drugs worship jews mushrooms christ-myth christ-myth-theory historicity-of-jesus historicity-of-the-gospels essenes origin-of-christianity

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I argue that the Jesus of the Gospels is essentially a myth. The Gospels are largely fiction. They were created around the turn of the first and second century in order to give concreteness and substance to the Jesus who, as the Messiah, had appeared to Paul and his fellow apostles in ecstatic visions.

Alvar Ellegård

Tag: myth visions jews messiah apostles jesus-myth christ-myth christ-myth-theory historicity-of-jesus historicity-of-the-gospels ecstatic-visions jewish-messiah paul-s-visions unreliable

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It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.

Paul-Louis Couchoud

Tag: fiction myth creation christ-myth christ-myth-theory historicity-of-jesus historicity-of-the-gospels literary-creation

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