Truth about Jesus

With regard to “Has Jesus’s final burial place been revealed?” (October 28), Jesus was not buried. The whole point of Christianity is that Jesus rose from the dead and was seen by many witnesses. JANINE MCCAFFREY Toowoomba, Australia

Your news item ignores the likelihood that Jesus never existed.

It was about 300 CE that Paul inaugurated Christianity with an imaginary biography of Jesus from three centuries earlier. This suited Emperor Constantine, who was looking for a religion he could make official in Rome, with himself at the head. He had failed to persuade the Jewish authorities to accept Rome as the center of religion in place of Jerusalem, but Paul, with a tiny minority of Jews who had converted to Jesus, was happy to agree.

Hence, Rome, instead of Jerusalem, became the headquarters of the new religion, Christianity, which it remains to the present day. HAROLD BOURNE London