RE: Jesus : The Early years
March 21, 2018 at 9:06 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2018 at 9:08 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Yeah they could have gathered bio on Jesus early years if his family cooperated, but as we know his mother and siblings did not believe in him and Jesus denounced them.
And although Mary was inserted as being at the crucifixion she and the rest of Christ family immediately and completely vanish into thin air after the Gospels. Mary is never mentioned again. She never says or does anything, is never spoken to or heard of again, and nothing ever happens to her. We aren't even told when or where she lived or died. She literally disappears from history--as if she never existed. All of his brothers disappear, not to mention sisters. They are never mentioned again. Generations later, two of them will have epistles written in their names. But according to Acts, they had no role at all to play in the history of the Church, and are never heard from. No one even seems to be aware they exist.
Jesus' father Joseph gets even less mention; having already disappeared from the story years ago, while Jesus was still a pre-teen.
And although Mary was inserted as being at the crucifixion she and the rest of Christ family immediately and completely vanish into thin air after the Gospels. Mary is never mentioned again. She never says or does anything, is never spoken to or heard of again, and nothing ever happens to her. We aren't even told when or where she lived or died. She literally disappears from history--as if she never existed. All of his brothers disappear, not to mention sisters. They are never mentioned again. Generations later, two of them will have epistles written in their names. But according to Acts, they had no role at all to play in the history of the Church, and are never heard from. No one even seems to be aware they exist.
Jesus' father Joseph gets even less mention; having already disappeared from the story years ago, while Jesus was still a pre-teen.
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"
