(December 31, 2009 at 3:41 pm)theVOID Wrote: Consider this:
The first writings to appear about Jesus came from St Paul 30 years after the alleged death of Christ who, while writing 18,000 words on the Christian religion apparently knew absolutely nothing about Mary, the Virgin birth, Joseph, Bethlehem, the wise men, John the Baptist, the miracles, Judas betrayal etc, all the things that we associate with the Jesus story. Paul only ever mentioned the crucifiction, death and resurrection of Jesus but he never once talked about them happening on earth nor mentioned the idea that Jesus was ever alive on this planet. He often talked of Jesus using sentences like (paraphrased) "Jesus, had he ever been to earth would certainly not have been a priest" implying that Jesus had never been to earth. This also supports the court testimony of one of the very early Christians Peter from which i believe it all started, in court peter never claimed Jesus was a man, he referred to him as a guiding star in the sky whom he conversed with and received instruction, so it was no wonder he was seen by the Roman authorities to be a nut-job who did nothing more than disagree with Jewish tradition.
The first time the back-story of Jesus was established was in Mark around 70AD which was in fact written by an anonymous Greek who's work was attributed to the disciple Mark, it is a similar story for the other gospel accounts which were also written much latter and, surprisingly, directly contradict each others version of events.
if jesus doesnt exist then Christianity has no base at all and that makes muslims more stupid as they believe jesus is prophet of allah and mohammad continued with his teachings!
Thanks VOID
Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"