(December 20, 2020 at 9:40 pm)Apollo Wrote: Are suggesting that Marry was not a virgin? *gasps*
Isn't that a viewpoint of Jesus historicists that Mary is not actually a virgin? To them, it's just another of the many lies in the New Testament that they have to ignore to create historical Jesus.
So I guess if historicists were to make a case for white historical Jesus, then it is logical to presume that his dad was from Europe, and pretty much the only Europeans then and there were Roman soldiers.
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"
