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Why are all these stories so simliar
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Religion
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Re: Why are all these stories so simliar
A lot of religious people see the bible/jesus as allegorical. faith is a way of life based on a set of principles/teachings.
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It's due to the Pauline Christians appropriating Pagan conventions and deities and synchronizing them with a relatively obscure cult centered around an executed Jewish messianic claimant. It was all a marketing scheme to attract 'gentiles' to a new movement. Considering what the end result ended up being, I'd say it is the most successful marketing campaign the world has ever seen (or maybe second to Apple )
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Re: Why are all these stories so simliar
Originally Posted by moe94
Or the idea that Jordan is the undisputed GOAT led by Nike, which you know full well
#walkedintoit
#gotem
How dare you blaspheme against our LORD? 10 hail MJs should cleanse your soul
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Re: Why are all these stories so simliar
Originally Posted by Rodmantheman
two things that bothered me about that article-- 1) the guy is trying to sell a book, 2) he seems blissfully unaware that 'intelligence' is not necessarily the main factor in people needing a belief system... more like something which greatly determines the level of complexity in a belief system.
having said that, pretty interesting premise and shouldn't be hard to fact-check for neutral religious scholars.
so in less than ten years we seem to have gone from jesus' remains being found in his family tomb to jesus never existing. whoa, man!
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also... nobody f-cks with the jesus.
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Originally Posted by Rodmantheman
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The Romans wrote about Him in a document that is apart from the Bible. How is that not evidence? I swear, some people don't even try or just flat out lie.
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Originally Posted by iamgine
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The Romans wrote about Him in a document that is apart from the Bible. How is that not evidence? I swear, some people don't even try or just flat out lie.
even if that's true, defensible and we're sure it's talking about the right guy, it's still a very skimpy list of evidence all things considered... is the point i took from the article, anyway.
as in, if this guy was such a notable trouble-maker of his time, why didn't the big list of local historians even mention him?
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Re: Why are all these stories so simliar
Originally Posted by iamgine
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The Romans wrote about Him in a document that is apart from the Bible. How is that not evidence? I swear, some people don't even try or just flat out lie.
What 'Romans' wrote about him?
There's no contemporaneous mention of Jesus anywhere Historically and all of the later mentions that in appear in Josephus' work and a few other sources are viewed by Historians (sectarian and non) as 'interpolations' aka frauds.
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^Dunno that's just the first comment.
This seems like a good source also:
http://www.gotquestions.org/did-Jesus-exist.html
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World's Finest
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Originally Posted by iamgine
a site devoted to biblical questions seems like a good source?
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Originally Posted by gigantes
a site devoted to biblical questions seems like a good source?
It could be if it gives good logic and evidence.
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Originally Posted by iamgine
That's a long-winded excuse for why not a single shred of Historical evidence exists mentioning Jesus contemporaneously. There was a much lesser known messianic claimant who lived about 100 years after Jesus supposedly did named Simon Bar Kokbah. He led a rebellion against the Roman dominance of Judea. Historians have found documents he wrote, coins he minted, mentions of him by other sources during his lifetime. Yet for Jesus, no one so much as wrote his name down when he was supposedly travelling around Judea walking on water, raising the dead, healing the blind, etc.
There is overwhelming evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ, both in secular and biblical history. Perhaps the greatest evidence that Jesus did exist is the fact that literally thousands of Christians in the first century A.D., including the twelve apostles, were willing to give their lives as martyrs for Jesus Christ. People will die for what they believe to be true, but no one will die for what they know to be a lie.
Just wanted to point out how ridiculous that was (from your link). So it's safe to conclude that the Quran is God's truth and Muhammad was really his most favorite prophet since psychos martyr themselves because of it? Even Falun Gong monks set themselves on fire because of their beliefs. That's some terribly faulty logic right there.
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