Seeking thoughts on a delicate religious topic.

The first gospel (Mark) was written approximately forty years after the death of Jesus. The other three over a period of one hundred years.

None of them are accurate.

They all tell different stories.
Huge inconsistencies abound, as one would expect from any historical writing undertaken by numerous people over a very long time.
 

Jesus was not totally illiterate. As a Jewish boy growing up in a Jewish community he would have learnt the Torah by heart.

Jewish rabbis would instruct students with an assortment of memorization methods. Even if he could write (and there was no evidence that he knew how to write), doing so would have been a dangerous exercise.
 
Jesus writing anything down was a dangerous exercise because:
A lot of people were out to get him: the Scribes the Pharisees and the Romans. Anything written down would have been used in evidence and death would have come sooner than it did.

The reason he spoke in parables is that so only his diciples would understand his message. He relied on them to pass his words on.

There were spies everywhere… he had to be careful.
 

The reason for Jesus’ persecution is that people were led to believe he was the Messiah. The Jews did not take kindly to that because they had and still have a different view of who the Messiah would be.

The Messiah according to the Jews was supposed to deliver Israel from all oppressors and lead them into a new golden age.

A rabbi from Galilee was not what they had in mind. So although Jesus was Jewish he was not popular with Jews or Romans.
 
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The Bible athough a great book, is also most unreliable. It has passed through many hands and to use a modern phrase, much of it was lost in translation and stories were compiled by a lot of writers to fill the gaps.

One will not find answers in the Bible ... one has to study the history of the time. Seek and you will find some answers by perusing scientific discoveries, documents, going to Egypt and study the lives of the people who lived there.
 
I have to say this again… the Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian collection of mortuary texts made up of spells or magic formulas.
It was placed in tombs and believed to protect and aid the deceased in the hereafter.
The correct name for the Book of the Dead is "Book of Coming Forth by Day.”

The Book has been restored and translated into Arabic and is now on display at The Egyptian Museum in Cairo. My husband is Egyptian and of course speaks Arabic.
He was able to translate for me.
 
Jesus wrote in sand in order that it not be permanent; his words were "dust in the wind." I also like what @Gaer said:
The "writing in the dirt" was not to communicate with souls of earth , but to receive immediate answers from gods and Holy Angels of the Heavens.
They have the power to move his fingers to answer his mental questions when the surroundings were too chaotic for thought transference.
This was similar to "automatic writing" that we have today. I feel his thoughts were one with the God.
 
As to the lack of any corroboration about the gospels, religious will have many answers. To the nonreligious, the events never occurred, or they were too trivial to have been recorded and were later expanded into much larger events.
 

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