RE: Did Jesus Even Really Exist?
November 22, 2011 at 1:10 am
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2011 at 1:21 am by IATIA.)
For starters.
Many people shared the name. Christ's given name, commonly Romanized as Yeshua, was quite common in first-century Galilee. (Jesus comes from the transliteration of Yeshua into Greek and then English.) Archaeologists have unearthed the tombs of 71 Yeshuas from the period of Jesus' death. The name also appears 30 times in the Old Testament in reference to four separate characters—including a descendent of Aaron who helped to distribute offerings of grain (2 Chronicles 31:15) and a man who accompanied former captives of Nebuchadnezzar back to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:2).
I did not answer the poll because it does not have an answer for me. Did jesus exist? Several, as a matter of fact. Did jesus of the bible exist? As it turns out, four of them. (Were they real people? May perhaps. Lot's of stories are written based on real people, then embellished for entertainment's sake.) Was there a god in the body of a man called jesus? I do not care what name they gave him, NO.
Many people shared the name. Christ's given name, commonly Romanized as Yeshua, was quite common in first-century Galilee. (Jesus comes from the transliteration of Yeshua into Greek and then English.) Archaeologists have unearthed the tombs of 71 Yeshuas from the period of Jesus' death. The name also appears 30 times in the Old Testament in reference to four separate characters—including a descendent of Aaron who helped to distribute offerings of grain (2 Chronicles 31:15) and a man who accompanied former captives of Nebuchadnezzar back to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:2).
I did not answer the poll because it does not have an answer for me. Did jesus exist? Several, as a matter of fact. Did jesus of the bible exist? As it turns out, four of them. (Were they real people? May perhaps. Lot's of stories are written based on real people, then embellished for entertainment's sake.) Was there a god in the body of a man called jesus? I do not care what name they gave him, NO.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
