Show me a religion in which there was one who martyred like Jesus. He martyred because people always hated the truth he spoke. They like to quote passages that they don't understand and hate it when you bring up other passages.
Let me show you how Abraham died of the Abrahamic religions.
Altogether, Abraham lived a hundred and seventy-five years. Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and he was gathered to his people. the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites
And now fucking muhammad
In 632, a few months after returning from the Farewell Pilgrimage, he fell ill and died. By the time of his death, most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam.
Now how did Jesus die and what did he say to piss so many people off? I'll tell you exactly my favorite bible passage.
But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
I think that covers pedophilia and child abuse and so many different things depending on your culture. Did you know you get shorter as you age?
If Jesus existed. Unlike Muhammad who was a real person. The cause and effect were no different. Both religions fought bloody civil wars on founding that lasted centuries killing millions and millions and millions. Both have been responsible for claiming countless lives. Both were founded in bloody revolutions completing rewriting previous religious narratives, completely expelling and changing prior religions. Both had renaissances. And founded Empires. But both religions were founded on lies. Mecca isn't Muhammed's birth place. Jesus didn't resurrect. Both were likely married. Who cares about ages. Then, marriage was different.
The Kibblah was home to the prophet. Why does every early founding mosque, they face it, face somewhere else? Because it got moved to Mecca after civil wars. They lasted close to 3 centuries. The Koran was rewritten.
Same as the bible. Many early versions have less disciples, no resurrection, and omitted testaments. In particular Magdaline. Presumed to be his wife.
Hot topic, controversy. Belief is what it is to the believer. You won't change it. You'll just piss them off. No intention when seeking knowledge and origin.
I see you're not a proponent of lost history? Don't believe everything you read in the textbooks until you can create a coral castle.
The Roman historian Tacititus and Jewish Historian both write of the historical Jesus. There is historical records of Pontus Pilate. There are other contemporary sources I don't recall at the moment, besides the Bible itself, where as if you just take it as partial history book, discounting the miracles and so on, it seems very unlikely that all these authors just made up some fictional figure. They may have lied about witnessing him after his crucifixion, but they didn't all write about a made up character either.
Yawn. The only record of Pilate is a single inscription. Jewish historian. Haha. Gonna have a laugh about that. The name Jew is a very modern one. Few centuries old. But a historian after the destruction of Jerusalem? CE 90. Yea.
Which Apostle wrote of the miracles? Did you miss my former comment. There weren't 12 in other versions. Neither was there Resurrection in other early versions. Strangely still it omitted other testaments. Christianity had several civil wars. Importantly on founding. It believe it or not was over the version of the Bible. Then again much later in the Reformation. Where two all of two prominent historians rewrote history, giving us AD and BC. Again on its split from Catholicism. And probably later, but who is counting.
Which version of the Bible, it was largely rewritten later into another version. King James is the basis of most modern versions, it was relayered much later. Like the original versions. The source material has been rewritten over sometimes as many as 5 times ontop of the source vellum. Impossible to even see the original texts. You're going by the Greek version based off the codex of the Vatican, fragments of incomplete scrolls from Egypt from 4 testaments? The majority has been rewitten. In any event there is huge controversy. They match it with that other print from there, and then go it must be accurate. Except they monopolised it. Where other versions were largely destroyed. Civil war gnostics, coptics. But there are old versions, that are quite different. When backtracking to the source. Incomplete Fragments or the vellum has been relayered, they wrote on top of it. It has changed, compiled by monks, adding miracles, adding more apostles etc.
If he existed. It hasn't been validated. They raised hell, looking. Until it's a belief. Not taking it away. Questioning it. Was he married?
Yes and no. The Koran had been relayered. It still doesn't explain why the earliest mosques face somewhere else?