Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior

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Chris Hu said:
There is pretty much zero evidence that Jesus actually existed. And even though I was raised catholic and made it to my first communion I was never a true believer the Bible always struck me as a collection of fairy tales and fables and not a very good ones at that.

The existence of a *historical person* Jesus *does* make a lot of sense, within the context, so I don't really see reason to deny that, either. Jerusalem was searching for godly intervention at the time, to repel the roman invaders. A lot of their collective history stems from stories about messiahs leading the Israelites to unlikely victories, so it's natural for them to seek another one, and equally natural for him to garner collective anger, by preaching peace (Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's...). Though, in this case, that was probably the right choice, as the revolt that followed shortly after was one of the most brutal massacres in Roman history.