Jesus Never Existed - Kenneth Humphreys

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In this video, author Kenneth Humphreys of the book Jesus Never Existed joins us. He has been interviewed countless times in the past, appeared on the film Documentary for the book Caesars Messiah and he has shown both pagan, Josephus, Flavian and other parallels to the Biblical Jesus. We not only discuss all of that but we also get into Paul the Apostle and why he thinks that it is highly unlikely that Paul did all the things he said he did in his lifetime as recounted in his Epistles (letters).

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[liamlynch]

I’m a recovering Roman Catholic. They get you at a young age. Takes a long time to shake the programming. Luckily I wasn’t a victim of the priests.

[zodjkkv]

I saw a man walking on water.
He was 100 feet off shore but turns out the water was only 1/2 inch deep. It was an illusion. This was south side of Lake Erie at a state park. I talked to him, he assured me he was not jesus, he gave me a beer. Nice guy.
When a stranger gives you a beer when you're camping and you dont have a beer, well, that's worthy of praise, miracle or not. Cheers!

[AriusOfAlexandria]

POINT 11: What the last pagan emperor thought: "It is, I think, expedient to set forth to all mankind the reasons by which I was convinced that the fabrication of the Christians is a fiction of men composed by wickedness. Though it has in it nothing divine, by making full use of that part of the soul which loves fable and is childish and foolish, it has induced men to believe that the monstrous tale is truth." (Julian)

[loslosmith]

They poisoned my mind and it did take me years but I’m happy to be free.

[thesheffinator]

I wasn't aware that Ken had been on your channel Jacob, but I'm so pleased that you have he's great to listen to and that was an excellent conversation. Thank you both.

[DavidFraser]

I'm a big fan of Kenneth Humphreys. Nice to see him again.

[devinbraun]

Haven’t started watching yet, but just stoked to see something new w/Ken! Expect this to be a real treat to listen to.

[rebelcybran]

Christian zealots, never question everything that`s make them worst enemy of themselves.

[wesbaumguardner]

Makes more sense than talking snakes and donkeys.

[babsbylow]

Thanks for posting this. I'd been beginning to wonder if Ken'd fallen off the face of the earth.
Nice to see him in one piece still.

[bryanfinegan]

I never got any sensible answer out of any Christian (or even had an answer when I was a Christian!) about what was the point of Jesus anyway? Surely an all powerful god can just forgive sin himself (or indeed get rid of evil altogether) which makes the idea of Jesus somewhat redundant.

[neilarmitage]

What I can't comprehend is why do so many humans have the need to worship things.

[zrobo]

I like how Ken isn't super focused on the scholarship. Usually this is a big turn off. He really points out some should-be-obvious things that I never really thought about.

[fepeerreview]

37:00 In fact we had dozens of gospels, with lots of uncertainty and conflict about which of them should be used. (Note I did not say which is historically accurate.) Until much later, when the 4 were settled on, Christians drew ideas and beliefs from all these dozens of gospels and the stories they told varied wildly.
This is itself an argument against the accuracy of the 4 gospels. The people who chose those 4 were even farther removed in time from the alleged events than the people who wrote all the apocrypha. So they were in a worse position to determine which gospels were historically accurate (if any). For this reason I don't think historical accuracy was either their interest or their intention. I think their intention was more likely political, to narrow down and control the message with at least a moderate degree of consistency, so that they could bring cohesion to the various Christian communities, create a single community, and thereby control it better.

[stephenvanwoert]

A very thought-provoking conversation.

[OttoNomicus]

I think the miracle of calming the sea is about the fact that if you put some vegetable oil in wavy water it makes the waves reduce so much that you can see the flat area spreading out from where it was dropped in. In fact, in old times a sailing ship was saved by the captain dumping 5 gallons of oil overboard, it spread across an area of about a km around the ship. I saw a video showing the effect in a pond.

[tamaracrowe]

Very grateful for people who can see this (to me) obvious truth. People FREAK OUT when I tell them Jesus was not a real person. A man I was on a date with literally walked out of the restaurant we were in! 😂😂😂

[JamesRichardWiley]

We have two Jesus characters.
The first was a wandering Jewish doomsday preacher who was finally executed as a public nuisance for stirring up the people in a period of political unrest.
The second is a miracle working godman invented by the early Christians resulting in a collection of Jesus stories called the New Testament.

[SCS-]

Always loved Kens outro on his videos "Its just more astounding rubbish from the new testament"

[Iamjamessmith]

Paul went into the desert or Arabia and concocted the Christian religion that he preached for 3 months. Then he went and preached it. This is typically how all religions are made, including Islam and the Mormons and others. Their main founder spends time alone sequestered and then comes out with the message.