The Romans wrote enough about him that survived. He was very real, and they weren't that prescient.
But, was he right at 33 when he was crucified?
Did he rise from the dead? I mean, recent research into the Shroud of Turin has been debunking it's debunking, and modern technology apparently couldn't even make it. But, even if that, was it really three days, or was that to fit a story?
And the big one, IMO: what the point of the recurring astrotheological patterns? Something about linking all this stuff to planets and stars must have been really important, to keep it up for so long, likely going back far into prehistory. What was that, and why, with so much ancient writing on hand, and more being translated all the time, are we missing what seems like a spiritual keystone of all the important civilizations of the world?!
Jesus was crucified in his 36th year. The legend of 33 arises from there being a 3-year ministry and Luke's statement "about 30", but when Luke says "about" he means "about" every time. His actual age can be validated by history and particularly recorded eclipses.
He was dead about 36 hours or so before his tomb was found empty, but in those days the expression for that was both "after three days" (not literal in English) and "on the third day" (still literal in English). They understood each other when they called 36 hours three days, but we don't, so we came up with alternate arguments to confuse things.
If world civilizations had astrotheological keystones, then they all pointed to how to recognize divinity when it manifests. However, of all the candidates described here, only one had biography written by eyewitnesses in his generation. With the evidence of archaeology and even hostile witnesses, we can be confident that something unique happened. On the principle "It takes a Jesus to invent a Jesus", the number of incongruities and novelties in the 30s AD are so unprecedented that even if some were false the person who invented them had a better narrative than any other ever invented before or since. So they are worthy of inspection even by skeptics; but the more I look the more truth I find.
I've posted a lot on this, so you can search "Chronology" at c/Christianity for many details, or I'll be happy to help with specifics based on your interest.
The Romans wrote enough about him that survived. He was very real, and they weren't that prescient.
But, was he right at 33 when he was crucified?
Did he rise from the dead? I mean, recent research into the Shroud of Turin has been debunking it's debunking, and modern technology apparently couldn't even make it. But, even if that, was it really three days, or was that to fit a story?
And the big one, IMO: what the point of the recurring astrotheological patterns? Something about linking all this stuff to planets and stars must have been really important, to keep it up for so long, likely going back far into prehistory. What was that, and why, with so much ancient writing on hand, and more being translated all the time, are we missing what seems like a spiritual keystone of all the important civilizations of the world?!
Jesus was crucified in his 36th year. The legend of 33 arises from there being a 3-year ministry and Luke's statement "about 30", but when Luke says "about" he means "about" every time. His actual age can be validated by history and particularly recorded eclipses.
He was dead about 36 hours or so before his tomb was found empty, but in those days the expression for that was both "after three days" (not literal in English) and "on the third day" (still literal in English). They understood each other when they called 36 hours three days, but we don't, so we came up with alternate arguments to confuse things.
If world civilizations had astrotheological keystones, then they all pointed to how to recognize divinity when it manifests. However, of all the candidates described here, only one had biography written by eyewitnesses in his generation. With the evidence of archaeology and even hostile witnesses, we can be confident that something unique happened. On the principle "It takes a Jesus to invent a Jesus", the number of incongruities and novelties in the 30s AD are so unprecedented that even if some were false the person who invented them had a better narrative than any other ever invented before or since. So they are worthy of inspection even by skeptics; but the more I look the more truth I find.
I've posted a lot on this, so you can search "Chronology" at c/Christianity for many details, or I'll be happy to help with specifics based on your interest.