ccolinh

Pardon me here if I am showing myself an amateur by asking this question or if this has been covered previously....

Now to the OP

It is often argued the the NT fulfills many/all of the prophecies of the OT. But this could be only that NT authors had access to OT writings and were influenced by that knowledge when they wrote their gospels and this Jesus dude was the best candidate for the story.

What evidence is there, assuming the authors had access, that they did not simply write the gospels to fit what the people were already looking for? :huh:

Chris Weimer

faith

There is no single evidence that the whole thing wasn't myth, even plural myths combined into one man. Jesus mythicism has a lot going for it. Then Orthodox bullying certainly shut up a lot of things. But yes, it's like reading someone saying that Hitler fulfilled Nietzche's prophecies... :devil1: :banghead: