(October 28, 2010 at 6:07 am)solja247 Wrote: Ok so I created a thread called, 'Where did Jesus get His morality' and for some reason a lot of people doubt Jesus's existence.
So I would love to see some credible books and encyclopedias saying that Jesus did not exist. evilbible.com is an example of something which is not credible.
You can say that Jesus was a fabrication (which historically makes no sense) but this argument has as much crediblity as the idea some creationists think that scientists fabricate fossils for evolution.
I would like to quote Napoleon:
"I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of myself, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant – Jesus – should be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations"
Can you really disagree with that?
Okay, how about this:
Rene Salm is an Archaeologist Author who has lead Aggregated the most thorough Archaeological excavation of the Galilee region to date, one of the things that he discovered was that there is absolutely no evidence of Nazareth existing until the second CE
There is no mention of Nazareth in any of the oldest manuscripts of Mark or Matthew and there are early traditions of Luke where the sole appearance of Nazareth is written Nazarean, which is the name of the "Church" that Paul belonged to, the "Sect of the Nazarean". While it has been claimed by many theist historians that "Obviously they were the Nazareans because Jesus was from Nazareth" None of the early Nazarean traditions mention Nazareth at all.
So Nazareth is likely a mistranslation from Nazarean, it is likely the Greek authorship in the 2nd CE (which is before the earliest manuscripts we have) didn't know of Nazarean but did know of Nazareth and corrected the texts. Bob price has a whole lecture on this if you're interested.
Also, Jesus was apparently a Rabbai, but this term wasn't used until after the compilation of the Pentateuch in the 3rd CE.
AND There were no Pharisees outside of the temple at the time, by law, it wasn't until the destruction of the temple that we have evidence of their activities in any formal sense outside of Jerusalem. The Pharisees were temple priests, and we have almost no accounts of them travelling, let alone living in a shit hole in Galilee Yet Jesus had many run-in's with these Pharisees...
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