Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis

[Bucky Ball]

There was no trial (of Jesus). Galilean wandering peasant preachers were never brought in front of Roman aristocrats. They did not involve themselves with local religious squabbles. Jerusalem was an occupied city. In the Pax Romana, trouble-makers in occupied cities were routinely executed with no trial, per "standing-order". The notion that somehow anyone "recognized" someone as *the Son of God* is utterly preposterous. First of all the Romans didn't buy that Yahweh was a god, so obviously they couldn't. For Jews, being called a "son of God" was a general honorific title, given to many men ... righteous men, politicians, generals, public heroes ... etc. It never meant *the* son of god ... in terms of the specialized nonsense that Christians hijacked the term to mean. It's not what Jews meant by it. Claiming equality with Yahweh was not something a Jew would even recognize. The Christian story was totally invented ... and falls totally apart under scrutiny.