(August 7, 2012 at 3:46 pm)Stimbo Wrote: This is a very revealing and absorbing article on the supposed historicity of Jesus and its origins, from a scholarly Jewish perspective:
Refuting Missionaries: The Myth of the Historical Veracity of Jesus (by Hayyim ben Yehoshua)
It's a fairly long and in-depth analysis, involving translations and mistranslations - accidental and deliberate - of original Hebrew text. Well recommended.
(For the lulz if not for balance, check out the best that the Tektonics Apologetics Ministry has come up with in 'refutation'.)
That's an extremely interesting piece, I've read some of it and will read the rest tomorrow. As a lapsed Christian; from the age of five when we are first taught about Jesus we are told never to question the scriptures, so we never did. It's only when one matures and begins to think for oneself that doubts begin. Also as you will know, blasphemers were executed centuries back so why would anyone question or criticise the scriptures?
