(July 24, 2017 at 2:37 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Entire phrases lifted from the OT and conveyed to this jesus character.
Quote:Psalm 22. 18: 'They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon them.
Mark 15.24: 'They part his garments among them, casting lots upon them.
Quote:Psalm 22:7-8King James Version (KJV)
7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8 He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Mark 15:29-31King James Version (KJV)
29 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,
30 Save thyself, and come down from the cross.
31 Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.
Quote:Psalm 22:1-15King James Version (KJV)
22 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Mark 15:34King James Version (KJV)
34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Just cut and pasted bullshit by "mark". What could they have done with a word processor?
And the Hebrews stole the Yahweh character from the Canaanites. They stole the "eye for an eye" from the Code of Hammurabi. And "Let US make THEM in OUR image" was stolen from the polytheistic Ugartic Text. So while I agree the NT is a plagiarism of the OT, the Hebrews stole their ideas too.
This is not new, even Buddhism became successful by incorporating older Hindu motifs. The Rasta religion has African Jewish/Christian roots.