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How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?

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How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?
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How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?
November 10, 2013 at 1:29 pm (This post was last modified: November 10, 2013 at 1:31 pm by xpastor.)
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RE: How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?
November 10, 2013 at 1:58 pm
To those Christians who find it incredulous that anyone would have believed Jesus had risen from the dead if such an event hadn't take place, I have just one word:

"Elvis"

How long was he in the grave before urban legends were told about him faking his own death? How many testified to "Elvish sightings"? And he wasn't a religious icon promising the resurrection of the dead. He lived in the modern age and not the superstitious time of 1st century Judea.

[Image: elvis-with-cross.jpg]

Why is it then so impossible to believe that ignorant and superstitious people wouldn't start believing fanciful tales about Jesus rising from the grave?
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RE: How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?
November 10, 2013 at 2:17 pm
I can't fathom why it's so difficult for christians to understand how cognitive dissonance factors in. It's unrelated and mundane, but my own memories of the military, 20 years out, are a lot fonder than the reality. If a skeptical pessimist such as myself can see how easy memories can be shaped through time and will, imagining insanely fanciful stories evolving into 'gospel' is a no-brainer. Willful ignorance surely plays a hand.
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RE: How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?
November 10, 2013 at 3:47 pm
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
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RE: How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?
November 10, 2013 at 3:56 pm
I read this whole post in Captain Picard's voice, thank you for your choice of avatar.

As for the topic, I wouldn't hazard a guess where the myth first started. I heard it said once that Christianity was a bastardization of all the other religions so it may have come from multiple myths are lumped together.

I'm familiar with the email you're talking about too. The one about brain and hot and cold? Saw plenty of people have fun ripping the arguments made in that one to pieces.
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RE: How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?
November 10, 2013 at 4:33 pm
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RE: How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?
November 10, 2013 at 6:11 pm
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RE: How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?
November 11, 2013 at 11:11 am (This post was last modified: November 11, 2013 at 12:02 pm by Drich.)
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RE: How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?
November 11, 2013 at 11:18 am
Quote:why didn't they have the deciples killed if they thought them to be blasphomous heritics?

Because there weren't any disciples. They were a later addition to the story.
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RE: How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?
November 11, 2013 at 11:51 am
(November 11, 2013 at 11:18 am)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:why didn't they have the deciples killed if they thought them to be blasphomous heritics?

Because there weren't any disciples. They were a later addition to the story.

proof? or am I to simply have faith in your word?
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