I can answer this question.
Here it is.
“No”
I can also raise the heat on this question.
Since we don’t have any of the actual words of Jesus recorded (he never wrote anything down, in fact he was illiterate)
and even the earliest Gospel, Mark, was written at least 40 years later (a lot of people didn’t live 40 years back then, so in
fact this was a multi-generational delay. And Mark was apparently a moderately Greek educated scholar who, who probably
worked for the Roman empire.
Ask any good scholar. Mark pretty much wrote down some common rumors floating around the Empire.
So, as a matter of fact, the “Jesus of the Bible” almost certainly had NOTHING to do with the actual,
illiterate Jewish itinerate preacher, who strictly forbade ANY gentiles from being educated in his ways or saved.
There is no question.
Paul largely formed Christianity.
And Jesus himself?
He had pretty much nothing to do with rumors written about him 40+ years later, and we really have NO IDEA
what Jesus thought about ANYTHING.
I’m SORRY.
I am always SO SORRY when people have fallen for a long con, when it used to mean so much to them.
Kevin Cann
1/17/2025