RE: Don't you just love the hypocrisy of religion.
July 12, 2017 at 6:19 am
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2017 at 6:20 am by Fake Messiah.)
(July 12, 2017 at 4:52 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: 3. Do you know when Yeshua became Jesus?
Well that was common central theme in mystery cults at the time. They were all centered on an intercessory savior deity, a son of god (or occasionally a daughter of god), literally called the Soter, "The Savior" (which is what Yeshua means in Hebrew and what is essentially the meaning of the word "Jesus").
If you look at "Soter" article at wikipedia you can see that many gods, before invention of Jesus, held that title: Poseidon Soter, Zeus Soter, Dionysus Soter, Apollo Soter, Athena Soteria, Asclepius Soteri, and Hecate Soteria. And even real historical people: Ptolemy I Soter, Antiochus I Soter and many more.
Each savior had gained victory over death for their followers by suffering through some kind of sacrifice, ordeal or trial, called a "passion". For some, this "passion" was their death and resurrection (e.g., Osiris); for others, some kind of terrible labor defeating the forces of death (e.g., Mithras), or variations thereof.
But of course these had nothing to do with Jesus. These were just coincidences, cuz Jiz was real Soter.
(July 12, 2017 at 4:52 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: 4. Do you know when the 14 Apocrypha books were deleted and why?
Actually there were hundreds of books, but they didn't fit editors taste at Nicaea. And then Zealots say that they didn't create Jesus at Nicaea. Pfff. They just looked over hundreds of books describing Jesus in all sorts of ways and decided which one they liked. I mean how are they inventing Jesus? Will you stop with your retarded theories already atheists?!
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
