Quote:I would think based on prophecy, a 'fake' Jesus would have been named Immanuel. Not Jesus.
The first thing you have to do is lose the notion that there is any coherence to this OT horseshit. "El" was the big kahuna in the Northern Kingdom so the "prophecy" of Immanu-el reflected the northern tradition. But the Assyrians took out the northern kingdom at the end of the 8th century and Judah, which had this yhwh character as their big god couldn't very well pay homage to El, could they?
There is an interesting book:
Holy Fable: The Old Testament Undistorted by Faith
Robert M. Price
Quote:In this first of a comprehensive two-volume study of the Old and New Testaments, Dr. Robert M. Price builds a spacious and sturdy ark to carry Bible readers over the floods of mystery that have long perplexed them. Why are there multiple creation stories? Who are the -sons of god- in Genesis? What's really going on with those Isaiah passages that preachers love to read at Christmas? Putting a lifetime of biblical scholarship hard at work on perhaps his most momentous project yet, Dr. Price explains the mysteries without scorning them. The beloved old Bible is revealed to be indeed a Fable, but still a Holy one in its sprawling and fascinating way.
Most xhristards heads would explode reading it but that's not my problem.
