RE: Would They Die for a Lie?
December 21, 2018 at 1:04 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2018 at 1:05 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Proof that Jesus on the cross is fabricated story and not from eyewitness memory, even indirectly, is that it is simply a tacit rewrite of Psalm 22.
Jesus is attached to the cross, presumably with nails, based on Ps. 22:16, "They have pierced my hands and feet." The soldiers divide his garments (Mark 15:24), a detail derived directly from Ps. 22:18, "They divide my garments among them, and for my raiment they cast lots." The gloating mockers "wag their heads," an odd phrase, and one derived from Ps. 22:7: "All who see me mock at me, they make mouths at me, they wag their heads." The very taunts of the priests ("Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross, that we may see and believe!" Mark 15:32) echo those that stung the Psalmist: "`He committed his cause to Yahve; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him!"' (Ps. 22:8).
There is Jesus' cry of dereliction, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" which is of course the opening line of Psalm 22, only Mark does not say so.
Indeed most if not all of Jesus life and sayings is simply plagiarized from characters of the OT, especially Moses. I mean hello slaughter of innocents children same as when Moses was born.
Jesus is attached to the cross, presumably with nails, based on Ps. 22:16, "They have pierced my hands and feet." The soldiers divide his garments (Mark 15:24), a detail derived directly from Ps. 22:18, "They divide my garments among them, and for my raiment they cast lots." The gloating mockers "wag their heads," an odd phrase, and one derived from Ps. 22:7: "All who see me mock at me, they make mouths at me, they wag their heads." The very taunts of the priests ("Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross, that we may see and believe!" Mark 15:32) echo those that stung the Psalmist: "`He committed his cause to Yahve; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him!"' (Ps. 22:8).
There is Jesus' cry of dereliction, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" which is of course the opening line of Psalm 22, only Mark does not say so.
Indeed most if not all of Jesus life and sayings is simply plagiarized from characters of the OT, especially Moses. I mean hello slaughter of innocents children same as when Moses was born.
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"
