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I just spent half an hour looking for the study I read, and now I can't find it. At any rate, it doesn't really matter to me if a person named Jesus went around telling people that he was god. We all know he wasn't, and since there is no historical documentation of his existence, only stories told, and passed down that eventually ended up in a crazy, poorly written book, well, I don't think it's a point even worth arguing.
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I just read (sceptically) the historicity of Jesus article on Wikipedia and the section, 'Accepted Historic Facts' are not fucking accepted by me. A lot of the information is referenced from James Dunn, a religious theologian with a bias to his beliefs. Supposedly it is accepted that Jesus existed, was baptised by John and was crucified but there are not first hand accounts to back these claims up in the references.
It's like the whole period has been erased from history. There's no mention of Herod's massacre of the first born for instance.