>>Someone point me to sources OTHER THAN THE BIBLE, or
>authors
>>obviously christian or having Christian leanings, that
>>document his life.
>
>The bible is a collection of sources, there is more than one
>source there. It is the definitive collection because many of
>the other accounts were destroyed...

Those sources are not objective at all.

>
>Also bear in mind, that not too many people were literate in
>that place and time, so people to write the stories up would
>have been few and far between and may well have had their own
>agendas.

Have had their own agendas....hmm...I wonder who that/they could've been.


>
>This is also true of the old testament, someone at some point
>decided which stories would be in it and which wouldnt. So
>stories like the book of Judith just werent included, although
>those still exist.

Maybe those books didn't make it in, because the MAN/MEN who commissioned the whole project, didn't like how those books were written. he had the power to do that since he hired the writers in the first place....And yes, since the masses were mostly ignorant, it would take nothing to make them believe that these books came from writers during the time of this Jesus cat.

>
>Personally, whilst Jesus may not have been the son of God (I
>dont believe that...), he probably existed as a person. I mean
>why not.

An Agenda?

>
>Now you PROVE he didnt exist.

C'mon mayne...

First, the burden of proof is definitely not on me. I'm not tryna convert tsunami victims to 'Mau777ism'.

Second, i'll give you a minute to think about, "prove he didn't exist", hoping you can see the obvious lapse in logic.


The fact is, there is no proof
>either way because many of these stories are so metaphorical,
>garbled and messed up over the course of time as to be
>basically fictional anyway...

No, there's just no proof.


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