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Old 06-08-2011, 03:22 PM   #27 (permalink)
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1) If Jesus of Nazareth had been invented, he would probably never have been called Jesus of Nazareth. The Messiah was supposed to be from Bethlehem. Luke tried to write a retcon, to show that he was actually born in Bethlehem do to a very convenient counting of people, but that never happened.
It sounds like you're assuming that, if Jesus was invented, he was created whole cloth by a single author. I don't think anyone is suggesting that. He would have had countless authors and evolved out of an oral tradition just like any other mythological figure.

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2) If Jesus of Nazareth had been invented, the accounts of his life probably wouldn't differ as much as they do. Invented stories tend to have their details straightened out earlier than those messy, contradictory eyewitness accounts.
This is completely untrue. It's part of the nature of folklore to evolve over time and vary from teller to teller. The urban legend of the vanishing hitchhiker is an excellent example of this.
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