RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
September 3, 2012 at 5:34 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2012 at 5:55 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(September 3, 2012 at 5:17 pm)Atom Wrote:(September 3, 2012 at 4:40 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Also what makes you think "Chrestus" is at all a reference to Jesus? When did Jesus ever go to Rome? When did Jesus ever call an "instigation" and how did it get to Rome? And how does the reference in Acts confirm at all that this talking about Jesus?You are arguing against something I didn't say. I didn't say that Chrestus was Christ, that was your idea.
The quotes provided referred to early Christians, so named because they thought Jesus was the Christ predicted by the Jews. The names Jesus and the title Christ are knit together in so many ancient texts that it may as well be Jesus' last name.
Why did you quote the passage about Jews being instigated by "Chrestus" then? What does that have to do with anything?
Every time I see this passage quoted by apologists, they claim that "Chrestus" is Jesus and the "Jews" are early Christians. So I'm wondering why you thought that was relevant if you didn't intend to imply that. I suspect that was your original intent and you're just covering it up.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
