Science and scholars find no evidence or need for a god

I choose to believe in noted scholars over our illiterate ancestor's writings supplemented by pragmatic apologetic scholars who have to lie to keep money rolling into the church coffers. 

Christians killed and took possession of the pagan buildings for the first churches and established holidays. Easter is a pagan holiday set by the first full moon after the vernal equinox and Christmas was a pagan holiday for the equinox. The question of an actual historical Jesus rarely confronts the religious believer. The power of faith has so forcefully driven the minds of most believers, and even the apologetic scholars, that the question of reliable evidence is obscured by tradition, religious subterfuge, and outrageous claims.

No physical evidence to support a historical Jesus. There are no artifacts, dwelling, works of carpentry, or self-written manuscripts. No contemporary Roman record shows Pontius Pilate executing a man named Jesus. There is no contemporary writing that mentions Jesus. All documents about Jesus came well after the life of the alleged Jesus from unknown authors, people who had never met an earthly Jesus, or from fraudulent, mythical or allegorical writings that one can argue come from fraud or interpolations. No reliable evidence exists for a historical Jesus. All sources about Jesus derive from hearsay accounts. Courts of law do not generally allow hearsay as testimony, and nor does honest modern scholarship. Hearsay does not provide good evidence, and therefore, we should dismiss it.

The most authoritative accounts of a historical Jesus are the four canonical Gospels of the Bible. Gospels in the Bible aren't original and authoritative but influenced of early church fathers. The most influential was Irenaeus of Lyon who lived in the middle of the second century, when numerous heretical gospels existed. Irenaeus used 4 for mystical reasons. The four gospels of Church cannon have unknown authors who never met Jesus and wrote the Gospels after the alleged life of Jesus. 

The earliest Gospel of Mark came 40 years after the alleged crucifixion. Forty years later Gospel writings mention Jesus! 

Not a single historian, philosopher, scribe or follower who lived before or during the alleged time of Jesus ever mentions him! 

So the gospels portraying Jesus as famous far and wide, a prophet and healer, with great multitudes of people who knew about him, including the greatest Jewish high priests and the Roman authorities of the area. 

If the poor, the rich, the rulers, the highest priests, and the scribes knew about Jesus, who would not have heard of him?

Yet not one person records his existence during his lifetime! What's man got to do, walk on water? Wait, he did that... Come back as a zombie? Wait, he did that... Feed multitudes from a piece of bread? Wait, the gospels say he did that... 

So the Gospels mention a particular astronomical event that would have attracted the attention of anyone interested in the heavens. Luke 23:44-45, there occurred "about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour, and the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst." 

Hmmm! Not a single mention of such a three hour ecliptic event got recorded by anyone.

No astronomer nor astrologer anywhere in the world, including Pliny the Elder and Seneca who both recorded eclipses from other dates noted it. 

Well, for obvious reasons, solar eclipses can't occur during a full moon and passovers always occur during full moons so it likey was another big lie. 

So the Gospels mentions the earthquake described in Matthew 27:51-54 where the earth shook, rocks ripped apart (rent), and graves opened.

Hmmm! Not a single contemporary person wrote anything. 

So the Gospels mentions extraordinary infanticides in Matthew 2 where Herod and all of Jerusalem as troubled by the worship of the infant Jesus. Herod then had all of the children of Bethlehem slain. 

Hmmm! extraordinary infanticides of this magnitude but no one wrote about it?

The area in and surrounding Jerusalem was the center of education and record keeping for the Jewish people. The Romans kept many records. The gospels mention scribes as followers of Jesus and scribes connected with the high priests. Historians were plentiful at the time who had the capacity and capability to record, not only insignificant gossip, but significant events, especially from a religious sect who drew so much popular attention through an allegedly famous and infamous Jesus. Philo of Alexander ( 20 B.C.E. and died 50 C.E) lived as the greatest Jewish-Hellenistic philosopher and historian of the time and lived in the area of Jerusalem during the alleged life of Jesus. He wrote detailed accounts of the Jewish events that occurred in the surrounding area. Yet not once, in all of his volumes of writings, do we read a single account of a Jesus* "the Christ." 

So the Gospels mentions a well-known Jesus existed but the fame of Jesus did not reach the ears of anyone for 40 years after he had died.

Hmmm!  Not one Jewish, Greek, or Roman writer, even those who lived in the Middle East, much less anywhere else on the earth, ever mentions him during his supposed life time. 

So the Gospels mentions Jesus lived as God on earth, the Almighty is plum embarrassing at explaining his existence. 


This Creator doesn't have any evidence and science and scholars rest on it.