Thread:GreyStark/@comment-28288412-20170506220152/@comment-26397825-20170508030044

GreyStark wrote:

3. People were just as intelligent back then as they were now. And people were claiming to have seen Jesus three days after he died and the centre of the early church was in Jerusalem until the city and the temple was destroyed by the Romans (Jesus predicted this btw) and guess who the leader of the church there was. James, the half brother (or maybe step brother) of Jesus. So could I make up stuff about a guy, say that he came back from the dead, and convince his brother and about 500 people that they saw him. Wait, Jesus had a half/step brother? This is legitimately the first time I have ever heard of such a thing, and I grew up in a religious household, went to multiple and varying branches of religious get togethers (as in, everything from sedate bible studies to musical preaching on a stage to thousands of people), and was extremely close friends with multiple people who knew the Bible and quoted it and the events that happened in it whenever the chance came up. And yet not once have I heard that he had a brother.

That legitimately blows my mind.