RE: The Gospel of Plutarch
May 24, 2012 at 11:52 am
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2012 at 12:00 pm by FallentoReason.)
(May 23, 2012 at 2:06 pm)Tobie Wrote: You could do the same sort of thing with pretty much every book, it is not proof that someone specific wrote them. Even if those numbers were put in there deliberately, it would not necessarily mean Plutarch wrote the gospel.
Textual analysis lines up too perfectly for it to be a mere coincidence. The guy was a clever writer (Plutarch) and given his philosophical background which came from Philo (who left behind his allegorical interpretation of the OT [I would link you to a database of his work but I'm on my phone]) it makes too much sense for it to not be Plutarch who penned Lux-Axe.
(May 24, 2012 at 11:45 am)Tobie Wrote: Even if the Gospel of Luke was written by or influenced by Plutarch, what does it matter? Do you get some weird sense of victory knowing that a pagan wrote the bible?
Christians don't really care that most of their book is copied from pagan religions, they won't care if one wrote it.
No, pride is the last thing on my mind ever. Can't you see the meaning of it? If this evidence is irrefutable, then that makes every last creationist a heretic. The true orthodox Christians were the ones that took the OT as symbolism because they were the authors of the Gospels. The supernatural teachings are going directly against what the Gospels teach and anyone taking sides with Paul is fighting a losing battle. Why? Because Paul himself was an enemy to the teachings of the Gospel according to Plutarch, but not only that, Paul's very own words reveal the true meaning of the Gospels because as we all know he wasn't preaching about an earthly Jesus.
Paul and the essenes/nazarenes clearly were debating over something radically different to what any Christian teaches nowdays. Jesus being a man couldn't be further from the truth of what they were arguing about. This makes so much sense with the lack of evidence for Jesus and like I said the creation account.
Is it just me or doesn't all this solve many many things about the debates that go on between theists and non-theists (and even between Christians).
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
