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Originally Posted by Gregor XIII
That oral tradition really has to develop remarkably fast. Mark is from 60 or so, as far as I recall, John, the last and completely unreliable one, is from 100. And supposedly he died around year 30. The tradition developing that fast, seems very, very unlikely to me. People seemingly actually believed that stuff to a very large extent, he was a dominant figure much more than a silly 'urban legend'. It does seem much less reasonable to me, than that someone existed.
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You're assuming all the Christian dates are right but there is absolutely no reason to do so. The fact is that the Jesus story has antecedents from hundred and hundreds of years before the events supposedly occurred, plenty of time to evolve into the Christian version.
Also, this argument you're making that "people really believed it so it must be true" basically implies that anything and everything people ever strongly believed was true is actually a fact. So do you think Hercules was a real person too?