• @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
    51•1 year ago

    Yes, the calendar was made by monks many centuries later that were doing the best they could to estimate when Jesus was born.

    This is disputed by exactly no one.

    Also, the monks were shooting for 1 AD to be the year of the birth of Jesus.

      • @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
        7•1 year ago

        Well that’s may be your belief but the consensus among historians is that there was a man called Jesus of Nazareth that existed.

        But many religions create their own alternate versions of history, so I wouldn’t expect atheism to be any different. But it’s important to recognize it as a belief and understand your belief is inconsistent with the consensus of experts in the relevant field.

        • @Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          There were hundreds of men named Jesus, it was a popular name during that time. Also, prophets were everywhere. So it stands to reason there was probably a prophet named Jesus during that time period. The “Jesus” talked about in the Bible? Lol nah.

          • @Pipoca@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0•1 year ago

            What do you think is more likely: disciples telling taller and taller tales after their master died that spun out into the Bible after a while, or a mythological preacher being invented a few decades after his death?

            From what I understand, the consensus view of historians is that Moses and the exodus is probably wholly legendary - there’s no archeological evidence of the exodus and the Torah was written 500+ years after the events supposedly happened.

            By contrast, the earliest sources for Jesus are from within a century of his death. It’s way more likely that we have a mythologized story of a real preacher named Jesus than that we have a wholly legendary story.

            • @Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2•1 year ago

              First, there is no consensus, a fairly small group of mostly religious historians believe that.

              Second I gave you, by far, the most likely answer.

        • @Rediphile@lemmy.caEnglish
          4•1 year ago

          You say it like it matters if the experts said otherwise. Like if the consensus was there never was a Jesus of Nazareth, would you no longer have that oh so important ‘faith’?