Hamas legalizes Crucifixion

[Final-Fan]

Avinash_Tyagi said:

@final fan:

Distance was key, even short travels by todays's standards would have taken days or even weeks to do back then, yes there was some record keeping and some ability to fact check, the fact is that word of mouth would still have trumped it, especially at a time when most people were uneducated.

I never asserted that he was created out of Mithraic ideas, i said that the theory is that the story of Jesus was an amalgamation of the various savior stories found in Pagan lore at the time, the story of Mithras being only one of many, the Christ Story wasn't written until around or after 100 AD, so influences from other groups like the Mithran cults could have played a role in the formation of the christ story, that the Mithraic Ideas would have been a part of the amalgamation, since they existed at the same time period. Like we see that the Virgin Birth concept was something that existed quite heavily in pagan lore for example, like with Horus, Perseus (whose mom got pregnant in a shower of gold) and others.

I didn't mean only Mithraism.  I'm just casting special doubt on that one since it wasn't even popular at the time the supposed amalgamation was forming, and doesn't predate said amalgamation by much if at all. 

And we're not talking about "most people".  We're talking about serious scholars writing histories that they wanted to go down through the ages, and some did.  They didn't get everything right, and they tended, for instance, to write their own mythology as if it was history, but they would not just put rumors down on the page as fact. 

And I reiterate that there were also scholars among the ideological enemies of Christianity, and you can bet they were digging for dirt.  They never breathed a word about Jesus being a collective figment of the imagination.