RE: Would Jesus promote punishing the innocent instead of the guilty?
August 20, 2020 at 2:21 pm
Vicki Q Wrote:They are very good evidence of the wish to tie Jesus into the OT meta-narrative.
Wow, two conflicting genealogies about the same guy are a "good evidence".
Vicki Q Wrote:Baptism was properly instituted by John the Baptist (Josephus),
Oh so that was proper, unlike those pagan baptisms which were improper. BTW it's not Josephus but Iōánnēs, you know very similar to Oannes the dipper whose priests were baptizing people.
Vicki Q Wrote:The whole Mithras theory has long been discredited in academic circles.
Sure, Jan.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
