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This Is How Mythology Grows - Not History

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This Is How Mythology Grows - Not History
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This Is How Mythology Grows - Not History
December 20, 2017 at 12:44 pm
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RE: This Is How Mythology Grows - Not History
December 20, 2017 at 10:23 pm
No wonder he turned water into wine himself.
No bastard would shout him a drink for his birthday.
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RE: This Is How Mythology Grows - Not History
December 20, 2017 at 11:31 pm
Another of those "miracles" that the other 3 gospel bullshitters don't seem to know about.  I guess they were pretty much making it up as they went along by then.
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RE: This Is How Mythology Grows - Not History
December 21, 2017 at 11:42 am
Well it was Christmas, they were probably pissed.
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RE: This Is How Mythology Grows - Not History
December 21, 2017 at 5:33 pm
Yeah, you nailed it Min. The "Mass of Christ" was not officially celebrated/started until the Fourth Century CE.
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RE: This Is How Mythology Grows - Not History
December 24, 2017 at 9:15 pm
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RE: This Is How Mythology Grows - Not History
December 24, 2017 at 10:29 pm
(December 24, 2017 at 9:15 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:
(December 20, 2017 at 12:44 pm)Minimalist Wrote: https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/dail...=ZE7ADTZ02



In any shitty fish story - the fish always gets bigger!

The purpose of the wise men bringing gifts to baby Yeshua was to illustrate the sentence in the 4th Commandment about "And none shall appear before Me empty-handed."  By bringing gifts it showed that the guys recognized baby Yeshua as a living deity although they had no relationship to his family at all or to anyone in Bethlehem.  The current date of December 25 is irrelevant to the the fairy tale and totally meaningless.  

Today most people exchange gifts on December 25 as a way to maintain social bonding and not as a religious observance.   

If we followed biblical holidays we would be observing the Feast of Unleavened Bread (the 3rd Commandment) and the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end (the 6th Commandment).  Then there's always the new moon festivals.

Which version of that fiction are you using?

3rd Commandment- "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain"

4th Commandment- "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy" 

6th Commandment- "Thou shalt not kill"

Huh
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RE: This Is How Mythology Grows - Not History
December 25, 2017 at 12:28 am
I was wondering about that, too.  But then, there are so many variants of that happy horseshit that he could well have found another.
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RE: This Is How Mythology Grows - Not History
December 25, 2017 at 6:12 am
(December 24, 2017 at 10:29 pm)Fireball Wrote:
(December 24, 2017 at 9:15 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The purpose of the wise men bringing gifts to baby Yeshua was to illustrate the sentence in the 4th Commandment about "And none shall appear before Me empty-handed."  By bringing gifts it showed that the guys recognized baby Yeshua as a living deity although they had no relationship to his family at all or to anyone in Bethlehem.  The current date of December 25 is irrelevant to the the fairy tale and totally meaningless.  

Today most people exchange gifts on December 25 as a way to maintain social bonding and not as a religious observance.   

If we followed biblical holidays we would be observing the Feast of Unleavened Bread (the 3rd Commandment) and the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end (the 6th Commandment).  Then there's always the new moon festivals.

Which version of that fiction are you using?

3rd Commandment- "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain"

4th Commandment- "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy" 

6th Commandment- "Thou shalt not kill"

Huh

WoG is right, what christians consider the ten commandments aren't the real commandments. The real ones are what bible "scholars" call the ritual decalogue, which contains ten actual commandments, mostly about how to worship yhwh but also condoning the mass murder of non yhwh worshipping neighbours and taking their wives and daughters as sex slaves.
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RE: This Is How Mythology Grows - Not History
December 25, 2017 at 6:29 am
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