(August 11, 2017 at 11:11 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote:(August 11, 2017 at 10:56 am)Little Rik Wrote:
Regarding "the story about Jesus makes sense", from the Wikipedia article on your woo gospel:
"In his 1931 book, Strange New Gospels, the biblical scholar Edgar J. Goodspeed noted:
"Augustus Caesar reigned and Herod Antipas was ruler in Jerusalem." This opening sentence of the new gospel does not encourage any very high hopes as to its historical value. It is generally accepted that Antipas never rules in Jerusalem but in Galilee. Of course Dowling means Herod the Great."[2]Eric Pement has pointed out difficulties in Dowling's text:
- Also, that Dowling has borrowed a number of details from the aprocryphal Gospel of James, a work that may not be older than the fifth century, such as details about the childhood of Mary and her marriage to Joseph, the birth of Jesus in a cave, and the account of the death of Zacharias which differs from the account given by Origen and other early Fathers.
- Goodspeed notes that the many ancient religions and philosophies taught, in many different countries, to young Jesus in the book seem "colored by Christian Science."
- The book depicts Jesus as visiting the cities of Lahore, India (pre-Partition in India, now in Pakistan), Shri Jagannath in the temple at Puri in Odisha, India, and Persepolis in Persia. Only the temple at Puri existed at that period; Lahore did not exist during the period in question, and Persepolis had already been destroyed by Alexander the Great.[3] The book asserts Jesus had remained in the Jagannātha Temple of Puri for four years, preaching among the downtrodden and low caste people.
- Dowling and Edgar Cayce both claimed to have produced an account of the life of Jesus through the transcription of the akashic records, but there are significant differences between their accounts.[3]
- Dowling claimed that Jesus knew Meng-tse of Lhasa, Tibet but Meng-tse lived 300 years before Jesus' time.[3]
Supporters of Dowling argue that within theosophical thought, figures such as Meng-Tse, Matheno, Miriam, Moses, Elijah and Vidyapati exist in an ascended state. As such, they communicated with Jesus after they had passed on from earthly existence."
So . . . this is what passes for evidence in your sad, addled mind, Rik?
I was going to take some time at lunch to research Dowling, Crossless - - but I don't think I could have done THIS well. Beautiful. Brilliant. Thank you. Don't you just love it when various versions of woo make claims about something happening, in a place that did not exist at that time? Such as, oh, the town of Nazareth - which was founded between 70 and 135 CE?
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein