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The Catholic Encyclopedia defines Freethinkers as "those who, abandoning the religious truths and moral dictates of the Christian Revelation, and accepting no dogmatic teaching on the ground of authority, base their beliefs on the unfettered findings of reason alone." So, Freethinkers are those who seek the truth about religion, rather than relying on dogmatic teaching.
On this definition, not all Freethinkers belive that Jesus was a myth. Many believe that he was a real person who lived in the first century CE, although he was not divine and may not even heve intended to start a religious movement.
Some, however, say that there is no real evidence that Jesus was a person. They point out that the earliest Christian writings, the Epistles of St. Paul, do not indicate that Paul really knew Jesus to be a person who had lived in the recent past. It is only with Mark's Gospel that Jesus is written of as a real person, but this Gospel is believed to have been written some forty years after the time attributed to Jesus. Scholars are debating whether or not Mark created the person of Jesus, to replace a mythical Jesus who had been worshipped by the very earliest Christians.
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Is Jesus Christ just a myth?
This is a question you may want to keep to yourself, as this is quite personal.
Were people alive in BCE?
yes. bce was before christ jesus. but since jesus is a myth, there were people in bce.
Why is it Christmas?
Popular myth puts Jesus' birth on December 25thChrist (as in Jesus Christ) + mas (festival, feast day or mass) = Christmas
Who started the groundless myth that Jesus Christ was six foot tall?
It might come from the Shroud of Turin.
How did Jesus come to be understood as Christ Lord and Savior in the post Easter period and in the early centuries of the Church?
The Christian answer is that the disciples saw the risen Jesus and believed in him. That Jesus told the apostles he was the messiah (Christ) and commanded them to preach his gospel.Various scholars have studied the early centuries of the Church and have tried to establish what its origins really were. For example, Mack (Who Wrote the New Testament: The Making of the Christian Myth) argues that Jesus was a wandering preacher who was not crucified at all. According to Mack, Jesus built up a following that he calls "the Jesus movement". He believes a breakaway group deified Jesus, creating a new cult that he calls "the Christ cult". The Christ cult began the tradition that Christ was crucified and resurrected, in the manner of many gods of the time. Others believe that the Christ cult preceded the Jesus movement and that Jesus of Nazareth was syncretised into the movement somewhat later.
Why do Freethinkers believe that Jesus Christ never existed except as a Messianic idea or a solar deity?
The Catholic Encyclopedia defines Freethinkers as "those who, abandoning the religious truths and moral dictates of the Christian Revelation, and accepting no dogmatic teaching on the ground of authority, base their beliefs on the unfettered findings of reason alone." So, Freethinkers are those who seek the truth about religion, rather than relying on dogmatic teaching.On this definition, not all Freethinkers belive that Jesus was a myth. Many believe that he was a real person who lived in the first century CE, although he was not divine and may not even have intended to start a religious movement.There is strong evidence that the biblical Joshua son of Nun, was originally a solar deity. In Egyptian mythology, Nun was the primordal Egyptian god and father of the Egyptian sun god, Ra; Joshua could command the sun and moon to stand still until the battle was finished (Joshua 10:12); and so on. There is also potentially a thread of Joshua as solar deity through the Bible from the time of the Exodus right up until post-Exilic times. The name Jesus is a modified Greek translation for Joshua (Hebrew: Yeshua, a late form of Yehoshua). Thus, it is possible to speculate that the worship of Jesus had its antecedents in solar worship.Michael Grant (The Emperor Constantine) says that, at the time of Constantine, Jesus was often called Sol Justitiaeand depicted by statues resumbling the young Apollo or Sol (Sun gods). Clement of Alexandria wrote of Jesus driving his chariot across the heavens like the sun god. Even naming the Christian holy day, Sunday, and commemorating the birth of Jesus on December 25th, appear to associate Jesus with the sun god.Another answerBecause there is not a single shred of reliable historical evidence to suggest that Jesus ever existed, and the stories told about him are remarkably similar to those told about other Messiahs and sun-gods around (and before) that time.
Atheism means disbelief in all gods but what word means disbelief in Christ specifically?
Non-Christian would cover the non-belief in the divinity of the Christians' Jesus. This would include about 2/3 of the world's population who either have no faith or believe in faiths other than Christianity. Muslims believe in the Jesus as a prophet, but not as a divine being and could be seen as a separate case. People who disbelieve in the existence of a historic Jesus whether simply on the basis of lack of evidence or as an extension of older myth figures like Horus do not have a specific designation.
Was Jesus a real person or just a Myth?
Both; real and myth
Is Jesus born in Bethlehem a myth?
It's not a myth it's a belief that Christians belive in.
What are the gods in Anglo-Saxon myth?
jesus
Who is Mormon woman who experienced spontaneous combustion?
People spontaneously combusting is a myth. No member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the "Mormon" Church) has ever spontaneously combusted.
What does a myth need?
a myth needs a truth that makes every believe
