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Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory
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RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory
September 21, 2015 at 5:01 pm
(September 21, 2015 at 4:44 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote:
(September 21, 2015 at 4:20 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: The "dying and rising gods" theory is a currently popular argument against Christianity which states that Jesus was a copycat - or rather that His disciples were simply copying other pagan religions when they claimed that Jesus died and rose again from the dead.

Although this theory has been thoroughly debunked in the past, it occasionally rears its ugly head requiring a fresh effort to dismantle it. In the following passage taken from his book, Did Jesus Exist?, atheist Bart Ehrman provides just such a demolition of this copycat nonsense.


That's really neat, Randy. And yet, with all that copypasta - you're still no closer to proving that Jesus existed, that he was a god, or even that there are any gods at all. You could just as well be arguing against the theory, that Jon Snow is secretly a Thargarian, for all the material difference it makes in the real world.

Oh, well - whatever keeps you occupied...

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Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory

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Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by Randy Carson - September 21, 2015 at 4:20 pm
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by Longhorn - September 21, 2015 at 4:23 pm
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by Drich - September 22, 2015 at 11:49 am
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by abaris - September 21, 2015 at 5:09 pm
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by Iroscato - September 21, 2015 at 4:29 pm
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by Iroscato - September 21, 2015 at 5:01 pm
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by Grandizer - September 22, 2015 at 6:29 am
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by Iroscato - September 21, 2015 at 5:21 pm
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by Iroscato - September 21, 2015 at 5:57 pm
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by dyresand - September 21, 2015 at 5:57 pm
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by Exian - September 21, 2015 at 7:40 pm
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by drfuzzy - September 21, 2015 at 9:35 pm
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by robvalue - September 22, 2015 at 4:14 am
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by Reforged - September 22, 2015 at 4:43 am
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by Grandizer - September 22, 2015 at 6:21 am
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by brewer - September 22, 2015 at 9:23 am
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by Iroscato - September 22, 2015 at 9:47 am
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by Iroscato - September 22, 2015 at 9:56 am
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by Minimalist - September 22, 2015 at 12:55 pm
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory - by abaris - September 22, 2015 at 3:24 pm

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