Did Jesus actually exist?

Originally posted by dlux ↑

Here is a very good read which makes sense to me - from a Bhuddist view

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-10.htm

Neither our philosophy nor ourselves believe in a God, least of all in one whose pronoun necessitates a capital H. Our philosophy falls under the definition of Hobbes. It is preeminently the science of effects by their causes, and of causes by their effects, and since it is also the science of things deduced from first principle, as Bacon defines it, before we admit any such principle we must know it, and have no right to admit even its possibility. Your whole explanation is based upon one solitary admission made simply for argument's sake in October last. You were told that our knowledge was limited to this our solar system: ergo as philosophers who desired to remain worthy of the name we could not either deny or affirm the existence of what you termed a supreme, omnipotent, intelligent being of some sort beyond the limits of that solar system. But if such an existence is not absolutely impossible, yet unless the uniformity of Nature's law breaks at those limits we maintain that it is highly improbable. Nevertheless we deny most emphatically the position of agnosticism in this direction, and as regards the solar system. Our doctrine knows no compromises. It either affirms or denies, for it never teaches but that which it knows to be the truth. Therefore, we deny God both as philosophers and as Buddhists. We know there are planetary and other spiritual lives, and we know there is in our system no such thing as God, either personal or impersonal. Parabrahm is not a God, but absolute immutable law, and Iswar is the effect of Avidya and Maya, ignorance based upon the great delusion. The word God was invented to designate the unknown cause of those effects which man has either admired or dreaded without understanding them, and since we claim and that we are able to prove what we claim — i.e. the knowledge of that cause and causes we are in a position to maintain there is no God or Gods behind them.

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Try this little exercise in seeing if your issue is not lack of knowledge but maybe just maybe pride. Now get a pen and paper , draw a cicle - any size, now lets just imagine that you could put all the knowledge in the universe in that circle( yeah I know you can't ) .Now divide off lets say 1/3 of the circle ok . Right now lets imagine that you know 1/3 of all the knowledge in the universe- generous aren"t I. Now here is the question that requires you to honest and and humbly so.
.Couldn't GOD be in the other half but you haven't found Him yet- I maintain that it is Interlectually impossible to be an Atheist as no one has all knowledge- that is if they are honest and humble enough to admit.