>>15796590Ask me a specific question and I'll answer it to the best of my ability. So as to avoid wasting a post, here's a parallelism between the teachings of Socrates and Jesus, supporting my earlier statement:
(395 BC) Plato - Crito [Benjamin Jowett]
[Socrates: Nor, when injured, injure in return, as the many imagine, for we must injure no one at all?
Crito: Clearly not.
Socrates: Again, Crito, may we do evil?
Crito: Surely not, Socrates.
Socrates: And what of doing evil in return for evil, which is the morality of the many - is that just or not?
Crito: Not just.
Socrates: For doing evil to another is the same as injuring him?
Crito: Very true.
Socrates: Then we ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to anyone, whatever evil we may have suffered from him.]
Luke 6:27-30, Names of God Bible
[“But I tell everyone who is listening: Love your enemies. Be kind to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who insult you. If someone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other cheek as well. If someone takes your coat, don’t stop him from taking your shirt. Give to everyone who asks you for something. If someone takes what is yours, don’t insist on getting it back.]
Both of these answer the question "how should we treat those who do evil to us?" in the same way, and both answers are in direct opposition to Judaism, which advocates lex talionis.
>>15796593Jesus is mentioned in Roman records. His hatred by the Jews is mentioned in the Talmud. He also appears in dozens, if not hundreds, of gnostic and apocryphal non-biblical texts. The Gospel of Thomas is a good example of a (likely) early non-biblical text.
He was a real man who taught Platonism and was killed for this by the Jews - who are cousins of the people who killed Socrates for the same reason. Later, the Jews co-opted his story, applied Semitic mythology to it, then spent 2,000 years hunting and murdering everyone that knew the truth.
