(February 13, 2013 at 2:05 pm)ThomM Wrote: Sorry - but there IS NO PROOF that a historical person upon whom the MYTH of the christ was developed over time ever existed. Certainly the christ MYTH never actually existed.
There is LOTS of speculation and lots of inference - but it clearly cannot be true
Literacy in Ancient Rome - in the GOLDEN AGE OF ROME - is often dscussed bit is subject to major disagreement - and many scholars say that most Romans could at least read some - it was writing that many could not do.
However - the jews would have known that the christ myth was NOT THE MESSIAH - because the christ myth failed to fulfill the prophecies for the messiah that are the absolute word of the jewish god - and NOT SUBJECT to interpretation or change (THE word of god is ALWAYS GOOD so it would not change it)
IT is always nice to see someone claim that jesus of NAZARETH exsited - when Nazareth itself did not exist as more than a burial plot at that time.
As far as the crucifixion - the christ would have been stoned to death by the jews LONG BEFORE if he actually did any of the things he is claimed to have been done. Claiming to be the son of god alone is heresy in the jewish religion. The money changers at the temple would have stoned him to death if he ever was there. Remember - the christ was a jewish HERETIC - and would NEVER have been allowed to speak in a real jewish temple - and certainly not the near the VATICAN of jewish temples.
Sorry - but using documents and statements FROM THE SUPPOSED TIME of the christ or from people who could PROVE to be eye witnesses is the only way to prove existence. NONE of the bible was PROVABLY written by any such person.
There you go again about proof.
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