(October 4, 2015 at 6:31 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: Aractus
Believe it or not, nobody taught me anything, all of this I do here is "self study".
My memory doesn't serve me right in remembering the Bible's history; all I do remember that this was the point of where the religion was "altered beyond repair":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea
Here, the religion (through the chosen priests) were all compromised, and finally Rome had found a good new heathen religion to follow.
About the books, it depends on which version was actually found. Maybe they found a version that was written long long after Jesus's death. Yet again, was 2000 years for real ? I don't trust dates that much when it's that ancient. maybe he was born a 600 years before the recorded date of his birth, let alone his body wasn't even found or discovered.
Typical Muslim.
The Qumran Scrolls were discovered by Arabs and are up to 2200 years old. Their text is exactly identical to the Leningrad Codex (with the obvious exception of it being in a more ancient script).
You are not seriously saying you think that Jesus lived in 5-600 BC are you? Paul knew the family of Jesus, James (the brother) wrote his epistle around 49 AD (well before any of the gospels) and has at least 26 direct citations to the says of Jesus, including 16 just to the Sermon on the Mount, and Acts 13-28 is written in the first-person-narrative.
As for his body, that's a moot point. He was laid in a tomb according to all four gospels that was owned by Joseph of Arimathea. Where the body went from there is not important - I think the family took possession of it and laid it in their own plot.
The MT as the name suggests was preserved by Jews not Christians. So don't come and make uninformed arguments about the texts.
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
