RE: Was Jesus the Bastard Son of a Menstruate and Promiscuous Woman from 100 BCE?
April 10, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Xtian theory is that all of this crap starts whenever their boy gets nailed up.
The fact that they cannot state when that happened is a problem right off the bat. We have a terminus ad quem at March 36 since that would have been the last Passover where Pontius Pilate was prefect of Judaea.
We now have proof that judaism was far from the monolithic system which both jews and xtians insist it was. The Sadducees and Pharisees were competing schools of thought as were the Essenes. The pharisees believed in an afterlife, the Sadducees did not. In the last few years we have learned of an unnamed sect which was active at the end of the first century BC and which believed in resurrection after 3 days.
The Gabriel Revelation Stone
How many other splinter groups might there have been which, lacking aristocratic support, simply disappeared into the dustbin of history?
You know, the jewish concept of a messiah was a great warrior who would crush their enemies and unite all jews. To be sure, jesus was a total failure on that score! But ironically if there was ever a point in jewish history in which they did not need to be delivered from anything it was during the reign of Tiberius. The country was prospering, they had a measure of home rule in Jerusalem ( the prefect was in Caesarea) and they were granted certain exemptions from Roman taxation and worship of Roman gods. After Tiberius it is true that things start to go down the shitter but jesus' life in the reign of Tiberius is an anachronism in and of itself. They were doing pretty well. They didn't need him.
The fact that they cannot state when that happened is a problem right off the bat. We have a terminus ad quem at March 36 since that would have been the last Passover where Pontius Pilate was prefect of Judaea.
We now have proof that judaism was far from the monolithic system which both jews and xtians insist it was. The Sadducees and Pharisees were competing schools of thought as were the Essenes. The pharisees believed in an afterlife, the Sadducees did not. In the last few years we have learned of an unnamed sect which was active at the end of the first century BC and which believed in resurrection after 3 days.
The Gabriel Revelation Stone
How many other splinter groups might there have been which, lacking aristocratic support, simply disappeared into the dustbin of history?
You know, the jewish concept of a messiah was a great warrior who would crush their enemies and unite all jews. To be sure, jesus was a total failure on that score! But ironically if there was ever a point in jewish history in which they did not need to be delivered from anything it was during the reign of Tiberius. The country was prospering, they had a measure of home rule in Jerusalem ( the prefect was in Caesarea) and they were granted certain exemptions from Roman taxation and worship of Roman gods. After Tiberius it is true that things start to go down the shitter but jesus' life in the reign of Tiberius is an anachronism in and of itself. They were doing pretty well. They didn't need him.
