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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious about all you who want to study all world religions. It seems you give creedence to all belief except evangelical Christianity, that Jesus Christ was God in the flesh, died for your sins and rose from the grave. One, it seems you are always very eager to deny that's the actual teaching, when there are millions of people who believe just that. And two, of course THAT belief just can't be right. Why is that?[/quote]

If I understand it correctly, OP isn't looking to give credence to any belief.  He wants to teach his children about religions -- all kinds of religions.  Evangelical Christian beliefs would be on that list and there would be no effort to encourage his children to believe in any of the religions or to deem them right or wrong.[/quote]

I asked this because when I said how about the Bible, that was discounted as not "non-biased." Why is that? Probably because the Bible claims He is God and that He rose from the grave. But that's from the only place you can read about Christ from the source. It's not non-biased; it's the only account we have. [/quote]

While the the Bible is the first known source of info about Jesus, its not the only account we have and its certainly not the most historical or reliable source. It's more a book of stories about Jesus and early Christianity. Much has been written about these subjects by scholars analyzing the bible in the original greek and doing archeological research in Israel.

Someone teaching children about christianity and not teaching them to believe it would want to use sources besides the Bible.  We wouldn't expect children to learn about Judaism simply by reading the Torah or Islam by reading the Koran.  The same goes for Christianity and the Bible.[/quote]
Please tell me a more historical account of Jesus Christ than the Bible. Your assertion is nonsense. [/quote]

Below are a few sources I pulled from the web, googling “historical Jesus”.  I’m familiar with most of these authors. Also, there’s a whole wiki page on the “quest for the historical Jesus that you might like to look at:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_the_historical_Jesus

Crossan, John Dominic (1995). Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography. HarperOne.

The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 1 by Margaret M. Mitchell and Frances M. Young (Feb 20, 2006) ISBN 0521812399

Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship by Marcus J. Borg (1 Aug 1994)

Who Is Jesus? by John Dominic Crossan, Richard G. Watts 1999
Jesus in history and myth by R. Joseph Hoffmann 1986

Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium by Bart D. Ehrman 1999

The Historical Jesus by John Dominic Crossan

Funk, Robert W. and the Jesus Seminar. The acts of Jesus: the search for the authentic deeds of Jesus. HarperSanFrancisco. 1999

Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus, 2d ed. 1913
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Astounding. The earliest of Paul's letters dates to within about 20 years of Christ, the latest of the Gospels within about 60 years at most. Yes these are not considered by some PP's as the most "reliable" or "historical" sources for information about Christ. Instead, we get a list of texts all from the 20th Century or later.[/quote]

Not astounding at all. By the 20th century, scholars had much more material and  many more means of examining and analyzing it.  They were using the old texts, plus other historical information from Jesus' time, plus archeological evidence and advanced means of translation, etc.  Scholars were and still are working very hard to get a fuller picture of Jesus of and the Christian religion that has had such a huge effect on world history.[/quote]

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