RE: Christ's birthday
October 22, 2009 at 1:38 pm
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2009 at 1:55 pm by AngelaRachnid.)
(October 21, 2009 at 2:27 pm)rjh4 Wrote: Why, do you suppose, a Christian apologist would feel the need to provide such forgeries to begin with?
Have you read (if you are allowed to): "The Jesus Mysteries" by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy" or "Unearthing the Bible" By Finklestein and Silverman, or "Misquoting Jesus", "Lost Christianities" or "Lost Scriptures" by Bart Ehrman.
These explain the forgeries, why they were done, by whom etc, "The Jesus Mysteries" also examines the historical evidence for the existence of jesus (Joshua in Hebrew).
General Sun teaches us to "know our enemy", in order to debate certain points maybe you should try to read the sources of information that we do.
There is equally as much if not more proof of the existence of Atlantis than your jesus
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(October 21, 2009 at 4:08 pm)rjh4 Wrote: How would the quote from Tacitus help Christians at all politically such that one would forge it?
By giving them the sort of historical credence and proof they dont actually have, that is why all the "add inns" in older manuscripts.
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(October 21, 2009 at 4:50 pm)Craveman Wrote: On that topic we can only speculate because we will never be able to proof whether or not it is a forgery.
Exactly and we know with Josephus that the text was adulterated by Christians, to add authenticity to themselves so why not in other manuscripts from the period.
If i am not mistaken (probably am) one of the reasons we know that the Jesus reference in Josephus was fake is that he was not referred to as the Christ until much later in History, could this be the same for the Tacitus "add inn".?
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