The Gospels are wildly fictitious in content and structure, written decades after the supposed fact at a time and place where average human lifespan was much shorter than it is now. In other words, a full generation after the supposed facts. They contradict established history, and even to the extent they don’t, that doesn’t establish any credibility for the more miraculous parts we are interested in. It would be like finding a comic book and claiming that proves Spider-Man must have existed because New York City did. Furthermore, read with a critical eye and modern knowledge, Jesus seems very ignorant of science. This is more consistent with a legend than an actual God.
The earlier epistles don’t even claim that Jesus was anything more than an angel seen in visions (i.e. hallucinations). Note that contradictory religions also claim to have visions.
The Gospels are wildly fictitious in content and structure, written decades after the supposed fact at a time and place where average human lifespan was much shorter than it is now. In other words, a full generation after the supposed facts. They contradict established history, and even to the extent they don’t, that doesn’t establish any credibility for the more miraculous parts we are interested in. It would be like finding a comic book and claiming that proves Spider-Man must have existed because New York City did. Furthermore, read with a critical eye and modern knowledge, Jesus seems very ignorant of science. This is more consistent with a legend than an actual God.
The earlier epistles don’t even claim that Jesus was anything more than an angel seen in visions (i.e. hallucinations). Note that contradictory religions also claim to have visions.
Here I need more time.