RE: People in bible never existed according to head of Theology at a university in UK!
December 30, 2017 at 11:49 am
(December 29, 2017 at 3:17 am)MellisaClarke Wrote: You know those super-nervous moments sometimes when on one of those roller coaster rides?
Well, as a long time Christian, I am having that exact feeling from this news!
I've been thinking about this new information for a week now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xVBldyy_Oo
Sure take Moses: There is no record of Exodus ever happening, and the simple reason is that there is no time in which it could have happened. No Egyptian record contains a single reference to anything in Exodus; and by the time there were enough Jews living in Egypt to constitute an Exodus, the time of the pyramids was long over.
Hollywood made a movie with Yul Brynner playing Pharaoh Ramesses, for some reason, to spar Charlton Heston's Moses although no Pharaohs bears this name with plagues or Jewish slaves or edicts to kill babies. Indeed, the earliest, Ramesses I, wasn't even born until more than a thousand years after the Great Pyramid was completed. His grandson, the great Ramesses II, lived even later.
I mean just imagine this big fat story that pushed it self as real history for many centuries is totally invented. Although not to zealous Christians that simply don't want to let it go despite lack of any evidence, as you can witness even from some posters in this topic. And even Jews - like that same woman made documentary that David and his huge kingdom never existed and yet some devoted Jews won't accept it, claiming that evidence is yet to be found.
Same is with Jesus: you can't determine, even by the Bible, when he was born, where he was born, where and when he died, or went to school, or ascended - nothing.
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"