"For someone so celebrated what was is life like in between life and death. I don't remember reading or hearing anything about it" - there's quite a bit of stuff in the Bible about it. I don't recommend reading it, though - it's kind of the worst superhero fiction ever produced.

They say he was a carpenter but I haven't seen any of his work.
He might have gone fishing a lot too.

There's no proof he was born.

Looking at the Bible from a skeptical point of view after having studied it for half my life I have become a mythicist. If one reads the Bible in chronological order, as it was written, he gets a completely different point of view. Paul wrote first and then Mark, Matthew and Luke with John last. Also consider that none of the Gospels were written by the people whose names the accounts bear and they were written 40-70 years after Jesus was supposedly crucified. Consider that Paul’s Jesus was a heavenly person and he never talks much about his earthly life. To the skeptic the miracles in the Gospels are fictions so we can remove them. Then the contradictions make them seem like fiction and what little is left is pretty superfluous. Much of what he said is taken from older sources such as the golden rule and what little else that remains isn’t that profound.

Scholars question whether Homer, King Author, William Tell ever existed. There is just not any concrete evidence that Jesus was any more real. For those that tell me to do research, believe me, I have spent way to many hours and days on the subject.

For the FACTS, you guys might want to check out Sam Harris’ recent podcast “What is Christianity?“ with Bart D. Ehrman, author of Misquoting Jesus and How Jesus Became God.

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Ehrman is a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity.

Jesus
the supposed truth
1 Virgin Mother alleged to have been raped by a god
2 Born 4bce and 8ce
3 Family ran away to Egypt, or didn't
4 At twelve years ran away from home, got lost in Jerusalem, found again
5 at about 30 became an itinerant preacher, conjurer, healer and story teller
6 associated with known terrorists pissed off the Romans
7 Preached heresy pissed off the Jews of every denomination
8 Assaulted legitimate business people in the Temple pissed of the secular government
9 Refused to lead a revolution and pissed of some of his own followers
10 Was betrayed by his own people
11 Tried and executed by crucifixion
12 Probably poisoned to spare him pain
13 Buried and body snatched
14 Someone started claiming to be him come back from the dead, but unrecognisable even to twin brother.

That's it, and that is stretching it a bit making some supposition, induction and deduction.

Jesus of Nazareth is a myth. There is ZERO contemporaneous evidence that he ever existed. Everything about him was written decades later by people who never met him. Nazareth didn't even exist until the late 3rd century.

Apparently he was a pretty halfassed carpenter. There's little talk of him working...mostly just bullshitting with his posse. Might have been on welfare.

Work of fiction the bits where he was talking to god in the desert by himself with no one else around yet the author knew what was said and done gives it away

No real proof of that caracter, and don't forget the bible was written by men and not all events were witnessed, or prove me wrong. Just saying

He was a bit of a smartass child apparently, but until the age of 30 he did nothing of interest. Then he found he had some talent for public speaking and went on a three-year speaking gig with a bunch of his groupies which culminated with him falling foul of the local civic and religious authorities and resulting in his death.
He made a very brief comeback tour, after which he passes from the record.

Based on some of the information I've seen lately it begins to seem more and more likely to me that Jesus, the man, never really existed.

Richard Carrier is a useful reference on this. I have seen his talks that are posted online but I have not read his books.

My grandmother believed that Jesus somehow came to what is now America to teach the Native people.

I personally find it very interesting that the leading historians of Jesus' day never mentioned him. If he was so popular and preformed all those miracles, you would think there would at least be a line or so in their missives.

Is there anything specific that you are wondering about? I was once a minister and my family has a lot of ministers in it so I studied Jesus a lot. I heard about him from day one. Learned a lot about the mythology that surrounded his life or possible life. (lots of debate on whether he lived or not and I don't think it really matters) If there is, let me know and I'll try to help you understand the best that I can.

It's obvious Jesus was a revolutionary bum
Who took on the romans and lost
Bible written and interpreted by men

Not sure what you're asking. The gospel accounts -- which, due to their fabulist nature, are not very believable -- cover his birth, touch lightly on his childhood, and then jump to about age 30 and go from there to his death. They are not big on character development, more about what he said then why he said it other than more fabulist claims -- that he was god incarnate, etc. The gospels walk a fine line because they are attempting (for the most part -- there are some inconsistencies between the authors) to portray Jesus as the embodiment of Christian dogma they were putting forth as approved orthodoxy. Namely, that he was fully god and yet fully man. They can't humanize him too much or he won't seem divine. They can't deify him too much or he won't seem human.

What survives, to my eye, is a rather one-dimensional puppet figure, and not always a very sympathetic one, either. At one point he irritably curses a fig tree for not having fruit for him to eat when he was hungry. And it wasn't even fig season. If you saw someone act like that, wouldn't you know just about all you want to about their true character? What a buzz-kill!

Here....watch the movie.

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Its doubtful that this person called Jesus actually existed. There are no secular writings about him. Bible stories were written long after his death. The longer time goes by, the more we forget so what was written was not seen first hand. I think Christ describes a state of mind.

Not a factual account by any means, but Christopher Moore wrote a book called "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Friend"
It's one of my favorites and the author tells (according to him... and Biff) what Jesus did during those lost years. It's pretty funny.

One basic fact that is often overlooked was that 33 was considered the life expectancy of the period. He would have been an old man when he was executed. Also, note that historians have changed the start times for history from BC (before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini) to BCE (before the common Era) and ACE (after the common era).

Jesus is a literary vehicle for religious allegory. Please, ignore the ignorance-validating agnostics who unwittingly perpetuate the scam by insisting Jesus doesn't matter. He was derived from the Joshua myths, Joshua Ben Jehozedek (Jesus, son of Jehovah The Righteous). from Melchizedek, Joshua, son of Nun, another likely mythical Jesus- Jesus Ben Ananias. He is written from Romules, Moses, and many other myths including the Homeric epics and others like Gilgamesh,w hich influenced greatly much of Western religion.
I just interviewed my friend, bestselling auhtor David Fitzgerald- Jesus, Mything In Action. Check the channel and buy Fitzgerald's 'Nailed' , THE great first Christ Myth Theory book.
I am working on my first book- Magic Jesus -And The Wizards Of God, editor Edwin Herbert- author Mythos Christos.
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Here's the truth about Christian religions: They focus as little as possible on the 'real' life of this person they call Jesus. What do they focus on? Christmas, his birth, and Easter, his death. Look at Hollywood movies, which Monty Python exploded perfectly. The life between they discuss as little as possible, for two reasons. First, they don't want to acknowledge, even to themselves, how little can be known for sure. Secondly, the more they are confronted with their Jesus as a person, like a human being, the more the son of god thing seems ridiculous. For example, some have speculated that the illiterate 18 year old Joshua (later 'Jesus' ) may have worked as an unskilled laborer (not a carpenter) on building sites in cities needing labor. (1) So, the creator of the universe in human form worked as a cement mixer in the first century AD. Imagine if his workmates had known that. Ridiculous. That's why only serious non religious historians only talk honestly about the real life of this person. And that's why Christianity avoids the subject as much as possible.

And that is if you believe in a real historical figure at the centre, which I don't.

(1) Riza Aslan writes about this in his book about Jesus, Zealot (2013 ?)

Jesus was a culmanion of People. Consatine had the text writtin when He allowed Christianity in the Roman Empire to be legal. Much of the Bible came from Egypt and Greece stories with so much more coming from the Korain.

Those saying there is no evidence of his existance or secular mention of him are simply wrong. Josephus' Antiquities mentions him, his brother James and John the Baptist. Whilst his works have been translated by christian scholars whom experts would say have added the messiah dimension to Jesus' character the rest of the text is accepted as accurate