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By: ropata

ropata — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:45:51 +0000

PS: To all Hyper-skeptics like Sue, see this demolition of crappy arguments that Jesus never existed.

By: ropata

ropata — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:12:22 +0000

Thanks for the comment. I'm not sure which POV is totally obnoxious? The mainstream historical evidence that Jesus really existed seems reasonable to me (admittedly a non-scholar). Wikipedia provides a comprehensive background to this topic. "historicity [of Jesus] is still regarded as effectively proven by almost all Biblical scholars and historians" As to the compilation of the Bible, this was indeed a process over hundreds of years, but the canon has been stable since approx 400 AD. People fight wars of conquest for many reasons, but have you ever read the Sermon on the Mount? Also, as Jesus was about to be crucified he told Peter to put away his sword. I think you have a fairly limited understanding of the Christian faith, but I wish you well in your quest for truth.

By: Sue

Sue — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:44:49 +0000

Which “evidence” are you going to follow and why?

1. http://www.dabase.org/dualsens.htm
2. http://www.dabase.org/dht7.htm
3. http://www.dabase.org/rgcbpobk.htm
4. http://www.kneeoflistening.com

The “evidence” written down and “officially” compiled 1700 years ago about a “person” (Jesus) of whom we know absolutely nothing about—it is ALL conjecture.

1.www.dabase.org/exochrist.htm
2. http://www.jesusneverexisted.com

And by people who we know absolutely nothing about.
And of whom we have no idea as to what their motives were in constructing the Bible as they did. Why they chose certain available texts. Left others out. And heavily edited even the texts they did choose.

And why, in a time and place when ALL the Sacred Scriptures of the entire Great Tradition of Humankind are freely available on the internet, does the “truth” have to turn out to be “christian”—or based on the writings of a small then insigificant cult (or cults) in Israel/Palestine—-as though their cultic writings have a binding hold on all of Humankind throughout the rest of HIS-story.

Such a point of view is totally obnoxious and INEVITABLY leads to “religious” wars of conquest—or wars of conquest justified by the local cultic deity.

1. http://www.adidam.org/flash/truthandreligion/index.html
2. http://www.dabase.org/proofch6.htm