Why do people still believe in Jesus and Christianity?

CFM said:
Better question is are you man enough to find out what happens to your kind when you lie? You've been offered the opportunity and ran from it like a nigger from a paternity test.
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Why do you hate yourself for having married a nigger who whore you out at biker parties?

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Cypress said:
You would likely never have heard of Christianity or Jesus without Paul's missionary work to the Gentile communities, or without Constantine deciding to give the Empire's blessing to a minor and fairly obscure religion.

Without Paul and Constantine, Christianity might well have remained an obscure and tiny sect of Judaism and might have faded away with time.

That is what I meant that in the context of history, Jesus would never have been of profound historical influence without Paul and Constantine, and the events surrounding them over the course of three centuries.
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Yes, Paul's contribution was great, but he would've been nowhere without Jesus Christ and his teachings.
 
Damocles said:
The fear of dying has us seeing the "Great Njght" approaching.. our hardwired brains seek to find something that it "knows" is there, even if our minds know it isn't likely.
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Psychoquackery. Very little is 'hardwired'. The brain has to pretty much learn everything, even the autonomic system.
 
Cypress said:
Unfortunately, you have exactly zero tangible evidence that God had anything to do with Paul and Constantine.
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The Bible. That is tangible evidence. You just reject it.
Cypress said:
What the historical record shows is that without Paul and Constantine, the Gentiles and the Empire would barely have ever been aware of Jesus, of the obscure subsect of Judaism he led, or the religion based on him.

I would say your garden variety Roman citizen never even heard about Jesus until about three centuries after his death.

Which speaks to my insight about Jesus not being a profound part of history until centuries after his death, and his historical legacy depended on the efforts and decisions of other important Roman citizens
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Reversal fallacy.
 
Cypress said:
Scholars seem to think that illiteracy rates in the Jewish world of the first century was about 98 percent.

As a historical fact, it seems highly unlikely that a child born to peasants, in a tiny village in the obscure backwater province of Galilee would have went to school or been thoroughly trained to read and write. He purportedly trained to be a woodworker.

Anything is possible, we will never know with any certainty. To me, it does not matter if he was literate or not. He obviously had a message and a charisma that appealed to people. I merely was pointing out that a person of such lowly standing in the eyes of the Roman authorities would not have inspired them to keep and maintain written records about Jesus
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Yet they did. Paul was a Roman. He was born in Tarsus, part of the Roman empire at the time.
 
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