Serious Bible scholars believe in the historicity of Jesus. There's not much to go on outside of the accounts in the gospels themselves. Josephus, a Jew himself, considered the Jewish 'Benedict Arnold' for selling his fellow Jews out during the Jewish Roman War, wrote two incredible history books about the Jews during the 1st century AD. In one of them he refers to 'Jesus the Christ', there's some debate whether that mention of Jesus was put in at a later time since the earliest copy of Josephus' work is dated to the 3rd century. Most Bible scholars accept that the Josephus reference is legit. There is also a reference in the notes of the rabbis at the time referring to a 'Yeshua', the Jewish name for Jesus, and his tricks of sorcery. There is debate whether that 'Yeshua' was Jesus since it was a common name and there were many in Jerusalem performing 'miracles'.
This clown's theory is idiotic, the Romans had little trouble with Jewish uprisings, they sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the temple in 70AD beginning a huge exodus of Jews from Judea. The Jews at the time were busy killing each other in a civil war, the Romans didn't have to do that much. There's no history at all to support his theory, there is lots of history describing the evolution of Christianity from the 1st century and onwards.
It wasn't until the 4th century that Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire. Before then Christians were treated the same way Jews were treated, like shit.
Christmas is coming up, now that is a totally fabricated event that the Romans dreamed up and its origin is incredible, a Roman pagan festival in December where for a full week you could do anything you wanted and you wouldn't be prosecuted, huge drunken orgies/rapefests. Jesus wasn't born in December, they dreamed up the nativity story, there's nothing in the scriptures about that story nor in any Christian history before the Romans got hold of Christianity, and much of the celebrations of the Roman holiday of Christmas was devoted to humiliating Jews. The Romans did a great job of creating the Jesus brand.
Jesus was a Jew, a serious Jew, meaning he would have been observing all the Jewish laws of observance. His issue with the Jews was the politics that had overtaken the religion, thought they were all hypocrites. Jews of the time did not have long hair, his hair would have been short. And he'd look like the rest of the people in the Middle East, semitic.
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