Jesus Christ..Truth or Myth?

Dear Friends,

Yesterday I was taken to task for daring the suggest that Jesus Christ the man may just be a legend based on numerous other legends that existed, in some cases, thousands of years before Jesus Christ was conceptualized.

Despite all of the literature continuously being cranked out and the significance of the issue, in the public at large there remains a serious lack of formal and broad education regarding religion and mythology, and most individuals are highly uninformed in this area. Concerning the issue of Christianity, for example, the majority of people are taught in most schools and churches that Jesus Christ was an actual historical figure and that the only controversy regarding him is that some people accept him as the Son of God and the Messiah, while others do not. However, whereas this is the raging debate most evident in this field today, it is not the most important. Shocking as it may seem to the general populace, the most enduring and profound controversy in this subject is whether or not a person named Jesus Christ ever really existed.

Although this debate may not be evident from publications readily found in popular bookstores, when one examines this issue closely, one will find a tremendous volume of literature that demonstrates, logically and intelligently, time and again that Jesus Christ is a mythological character along the same lines as the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Sumerian, Phoenician, Indian or other godmen, who are all presently accepted as myths rather than historical figures. Delving deeply into this large body of work, one uncovers evidence that the Jesus character is based upon much older myths and heroes from around the globe. One discovers that this story is not, therefore, a historical representation of a Jewish rebel carpenter who had physical incarnation in the Levant 2,000 years ago. In other words, it has been demonstrated continually for centuries that this character, Jesus Christ, was invented and did not depict a real person.
Let me state for the record that the observance of religion has it’s place. The stories surrounding the various religions has helped some people to become extraordinary human beings whose lives has become inspirations for generations. However, this does not mean that the stories are true. Like any good fable the stories  of Jesus, Buddha, Horus, Mithra and Krishna to name a few are meant to guide mankind to an elevated state of being.  
Man’s psyche is such that he will always seek an explanation to the question of, “Why are we here? What is the reason for our existence?. Religion gives most people a reason to get up every morning and be all that they can be, and for that I salute it.

However there is some of us that are unable to accept without question the many stories that surround religious beliefs and seek to gain as much information of possible about the origins of religious dogma. If you are one of those persons, please read the attached link, if you are willing to accept what you have been told and do not want to read anything that might make you doubt that what you absolutely KNOW to be true, STOP READING NOW.

Quotes of the Day

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” Galileo Galilei

“Because God is indefinable, because God's wisdom is beyond measure, no one religion can contain it in its entirety. Therefore, God has inspired the birth of many religions, each one offering its own unique view of eternal truth.” George Wolfe

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cvUyTelsrouuWpwccMZrE0fuHjoQkRPJGx6CJIxlHM4/edit?hl=en_US