> Why would they get killed? After all, they ( the priests) had all the power -- you forget, for a long time, it ws the christians getting killed.
And then the Christians turned it around. If there was proof that Christ was a fraud (or at least somethign that put it into doubt), what would the Church do with it?
God turned it around. As a member of the Church to which you are alluding, all I can tell you is that I have never been discouraged from questioning anything. Put it out in the light and let's examine it, is what I was taught, for after all, the truth loves the light
My Encyclopaedia Brittanica (Macropaedia, Vol. 22, p. 360, Jesus: The Christ and Christology, column 2, paragraph 5) following a listing and explanation of non-Christian sources and references for the historic Jesus, says this......
Seems like even the Encyclopaedia Brittanica thinks your ability to reason is inadequate.....