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Earl Doherty is the author of The Jesus Puzzle, a work published in 2000 arguing that Jesus never lived, and that he was simply a fictional character made up by Paul based on Old Testament prophecy.

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+'''Earl Doherty''' is the author of ''[[The Jesus Puzzle]]'', a work published in [[2000]] arguing that [[Jesus]] never lived, and that he was simply a fictional character made up by [[Paul of Tarsus|Paul]] based on [[Old Testament]] prophecy.
-<p><strong>Earl Doherty</strong> is the author of [[The Jesus Puzzle]], a work published in the year [[2000]] which threw a grenade into the historicity debate about [[Jesus Christ]] with its thesis that the best proof that Jesus never lived is the writings of his greatest apostle, [[Paul of Tarsus]].  According to Doherty, Paul never heard of or knew about any Jesus of Nazareth/Bethlehem who lived recently, but drew the Christ he preached straight out of the [[Bible]] ([[Hebrew]] [[Old Testament]]), the last book of which was written 400 years earlier, which contains hundreds of [[prophecies]] allegedly predicting the coming of a [[Jewish]] [[Messiah]].  The Jesus of the [[gospels]] was invented after his death, after the Romans destroyed [[Jerusalem]] and its [[Jewish Temple]] in [[70 AD]], backdating his life to 40 years before that date.  While many gospels were written other than the canonical four, they were later declared [[apocryphal]] by the [[Catholic Church]], while Paul's writings were preserved as part of the [[New Testament]], forever creating two Christianities, one with, one without a historical Jesus.
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-Earl Doherty didn't start the historicity debate about Jesus, but he is now  carrying the torch vis a vis the earlier Rationalists who thought of Jesus as a real person whose story got garbled into a myth by his followers of followers of his real followers, rather than a myth whose story was deliberately manufactured and then palmed off as a real person by followers of a purely biblical cult who believed that Judaism had been destroyed by Jehovah using the Romans as their weapon, and now wanted peoples of all nations to be his chosen people, to drop out of the Roman society, and wait for his promised return.
-People who disagree with him need to read his book first, before blasting him.  Obviously, if evolution is true and there was no real Adam and Eve, there is no reason to have a real Christ other than to satisfy the Bible's own logic, hence the gospel writers would have had no qualms about making him up, thinking they were being inspired by Jehovah with supernatural facts, and expecting the supernatural return of Christ to prove them right.
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