Dear Mythical Jesus Proponents (An Open Letter)
Channel: Kristi Winters
Date: 10/08/2017

After reading many of the comments and the misunderstandings I saw, I made this video to clarify the premise of my video series in defense of an historical Jesus. 
*Errata: At min 2:50 I misspoke. I should have said there are not multiple theories of a historical Jesus.

Music:
REBETIKO-B1 by Sex Drugs & Rebetiko is licensed under a Attribution License.
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sex_Drugs__Rebetiko/Concert__la_Grange_Cavale/REBETIKO-B1


What I am using as my 'theory of the historical Jesus' in this series.

A man named Jesus (Yeshua in Aramaic) lived in the Galilee early in the 1st century CE. He was a Jew who came from the lower economic class, and a few years before his death he began preaching an apocalyptic form of Judaism in vogue at the time. This man Jesus traveled around the Galilee preaching this Pharisee form of Judaism to Jews in the area and he gathered a small following.  Shortly before his death he traveled to Jerusalem to take part in the Passover rituals. While there he created disturbances that brought him to the attention of the Sadducees - Jewish religious men who collaborated with the Romans to run Jerusalem. A member of Jesus inner circle told these authorities that Jesus had been preaching he was the Jewish messiah - a Jewish king - and on this basis the Romans arrested Jesus and executed him for treason because he claimed messiahship.  After his death Jesus' followers, including his brother James and closest disciple Peter, thought they saw him in visions or appearances, and began preaching stories about his life and the idea that he had been resurrected. Over time these stories became exaggerated and mythicized until by the early 2nd century most followers of Jesus believed he was some sort of divine being.