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RE: Creating Christ
September 18, 2022 at 11:58 am
Well, someone’s off to a roaring start…
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RE: Creating Christ
September 18, 2022 at 12:16 pm
Everyone is creating Christ. It's a living myth. Like when DaVinci Code popularised the myth that Jesus was part of the Merovingian dynasty. Or people who believe that Jesus lived in India or even Japan, etc.
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"
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RE: Creating Christ
September 18, 2022 at 12:37 pm
Have not read the book. Professor Bart Ehrman has developed similar ideas.
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RE: Creating Christ
September 18, 2022 at 1:58 pm
It puts the thoughts in the post or it gets the hose.
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RE: Creating Christ
September 18, 2022 at 2:42 pm
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RE: Creating Christ
September 18, 2022 at 2:51 pm
(September 18, 2022 at 12:16 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Everyone is creating Christ. It's a living myth. Like when DaVinci Code popularised the myth that Jesus was part of the Merovingian dynasty. Or people who believe that Jesus lived in India or even Japan, etc.
The Davinci Code is fiction.
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RE: Creating Christ
September 18, 2022 at 3:03 pm
According to Rene Salm, author of The Myth of Nazareth: The Invented Town of Jesus, archeological evidence suggests Nazareth didn't exist until after the Jewish War, around 70 AD.
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RE: Creating Christ
September 18, 2022 at 3:51 pm
(September 18, 2022 at 3:03 pm)Ranjr Wrote: According to Rene Salm, author of The Myth of Nazareth: The Invented Town of Jesus, archeological evidence suggests Nazareth didn't exist until after the Jewish War, around 70 AD.
Rene Salm is wrong. Not that it matters all that much.
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