The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence

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A skeptical, systematic critique argues that the Christ of the New Testament is a constructed myth rather than a reliably attested historical person. It assesses the silence of contemporary writers, the anonymous and late character of the gospels, and the contradictions within infancy narratives, ministry accounts, crucifixion, and resurrection reports. The author evaluates the moral portrait and teachings attributed to the figure and traces parallels with older pagan religions and divinities as possible sources of the myth. The conclusion asserts that supernatural claims lack sufficient historical support and that veneration rests on literary and theological fabrication rather than firm documentary evidence.

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Did he oppose slavery?

All: He did not.

“Slavery was incorporated into the civil institutions of Moses; it was recognized accordingly by Christ and his apostles.”—Rev. Dr. Nathan Lord, President of Dartmouth College.

“At the time of the advent of Jesus Christ, slavery in its worst forms prevailed over the world. The Savior found it around him in Judea; the apostles met with it in Asia, Greece and Italy. How did they treat it? Not by denunciation of slave-holding as necessarily sinful.”—Prof. Hodge of Princeton.

“I have no doubt if Jesus Christ were now on earth that he would, under certain circumstances, become a slaveholder.”—Rev. Dr. Taylor of Yale.

Rousseau says: “Christ preaches only servitude and dependence.... True Christians are made to be slaves.”