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Originally Posted by suesheboy
Not until at least decades after his death from what I have found.
Don't know of a single document where Jesus is mentioned by anyone who was alive when he was.
Show me one example.
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but crucially, there are no documents that say that his life was a myth from around that time either. other religions of that time period do not say that he never existed, instead they try to discredit him as a charlatan or a magician.
I watch a documentary a few months back that was very interesting. apparently around that time there was dozens of men wandering around the middle east each with their own followers and each with their "miracles" (apparently one of them, who's name I have forgotten now, was really popular and it was a close call that we could have ended up worshiping him instead.) anyway, the documentary goes on to say that over time the myths of each of those men slowly started being attributed to an ever shrinking group of prophets until there was one man left who's life story absorbed the myths of all of his contemporaries - Jesus.