(April 6, 2017 at 12:11 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Jesus, BTW, did not have a New Testament.
He was steeped in Judaism, His religion. New Testament Christianity is a religion ABOUT Jesus, it is not the religion OF Jesus.
Yes, but the reality really is the NT was written as an afterthought to be attached to a movement of splinter Jews. It still would not regardless make magic babies with super powers real nor would it mean a human could survive the death myth as the bible would have one believe.
Not even the Jewish God Yahweh is original to the Hebrews, the character was stolen from prior Canaanite polytheism where he was a lesser god as part of a divine family under the head god El.
The New Testament writers saw a new movement creeping up that was gaining appeal of more people so they wrote the NT to compete to be part of it. They were not basing it on real people, only real legends. They added real places and real leaders after the fact to give it the look of credibility.
Just like the movie Abraham Lincoln Vampire Slayer uses a real historical figure does not make vampires real.
