(August 3, 2014 at 6:15 pm)Minimalist Wrote: So when "paul" claims to have escaped Damascus they accept it as "gospel" (pun intended) even though there is no indication anywhere else in history that Nabatea controlled Damascus in the first century.Oh, I'm sure that Rome would've happily ceded such a plum piece of real estate without much of a fuss. And when that happened, I'm sure no one would have considered it noteworthy.
Quote:...john don't give a shit about his birth.As I will soon review, John actually does place Jesus' birth around 20 BCE, though you need to go outside the Gospel itself to some of the other Christian writings of the time. John's Jesus was almost 50 years old when he was crucified around 28 CE.
Quote:2 He relates, that Jesus spake even when he was in the cradle, and said to his mother: ...Funny as that is, when you think of it, is it any more crazy than a baby being God? Did Mary have to get up for God's nightly feedings? Did Mary have to change God's diapers? It was a good move for the Gospel writers to quickly gloss over the story right after Jesus' birth and fast forward to age 30, with just a brief episode of when he was 12.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
