RE: Did Jesus Christ exist as a historical human or was he a theological construct?
May 20, 2010 at 8:40 pm
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2010 at 8:42 pm by tackattack.)
"Perhaps you are not aware of this but there are a great many European and Israeli archaeologists and biblical scholars who regard their American colleagues as too far under the thumb of fundamentalist nutjobs. " No I wasn't aware, I don't study that area typically. Pile it under all the walls of data you want.
Are you perhaps suggesting that Strange, in spite of his bible-thumper education, is able to objectively discuss his own faith? No min I'm saying his background has nothing to do with evidence. Regardless of his background, if he has evidence let's take a look and verify it's authenticity.
" Archaeologist have found a list in Aramaic describing the twenty four families of priest and their relocation and one is listed as being reassigned to Nazareth. " Is this verifiable? yes.. is it true idk I'm no scholar in this area and haven't seen it.
Are you perhaps suggesting that Strange, in spite of his bible-thumper education, is able to objectively discuss his own faith? No min I'm saying his background has nothing to do with evidence. Regardless of his background, if he has evidence let's take a look and verify it's authenticity.
" Archaeologist have found a list in Aramaic describing the twenty four families of priest and their relocation and one is listed as being reassigned to Nazareth. " Is this verifiable? yes.. is it true idk I'm no scholar in this area and haven't seen it.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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