(08-14-2020, 08:46 PM)Jason Wrote: ... You cannot know if Jesus existed without the New Testament. You cannot know what Jesus said without the New Testament. You cannot know where Jesus went or who he went there with without the New Testament.
If you reject the New Testament, you are logically obligated to reject everything you know about Jesus and throw that garbage teaching into the bin. You're so close to the truth, yet so far away by holding on to an entire mythology developed around a teacher who most likely never even existed. ...
He wasn't a great teacher. He was nothing. ...
Critical scholars have struggled to discern and dissect the combination of myth and history in the New Testament for a couple of centuries. Jewish scholars have helped some Christians better understand plausible reconstructions of an historical Jesus in his 2nd Temple Jewish context. One need not approach the New Testament with an all-or-nothing, black-and-white attitude.