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Originally Posted by sugarandspice There are many stories. Who is to say which one is correct?
The stories and texts were written hundreds of years after the alleged facts. There are no secular records although other characters do have a secular record.
Also many,many other deities have a similar mythology as the Christ story. |
sugarandspice, I agree that there are many stories about what happened after the cross/execution but most people agree the life story of Jesus to be correct,
also, One of antiquity’s greatest historians, Cornelius Tacitus, affirmed that Jesus had suffered under Pilate. Tacitus was born around 25 years after Jesus died, and he had seen the spread of Christianity begin to impact Rome. The Roman historian wrote negatively of Christ and Christians, identifying them in a.d. 115 as “a race of men detested for their evil practices, and commonly called Chrestiani. The name was derived from Chrestus, who, in the reign of Tiberius, suffered under Pontius Pilate, Procurator of Judea.”
There quite a few others too but to go into it all is just to long for now but you need to know
they were not Christians / people of the way, also you should know that most of the scriptures that are now used concerning Jesus, and his mates are date from 60 ad to 90 ad, with the later copies from the 1st 2nd 3rd centuries being copies of the early ones.The Q gospel was recoded in 50 CE ?,
Paul who was Saul lived in that time to and a lot of his writings are used, so to say they are hundreds of yrs after is just not true,the later copies are and what people have forgotten is that they are just that, copies of early documents.
i would be giving the person who told you that crap a ear full if i were you. they have not done any home work on this and have now made you look a little silly too, because it now looks like you have heard someone just say those things but never really checked,
which is fine, but does your argument no good because now know one will think you have looked into that which you speak off.
In addition, the writings of opponents of Christianity such as Jews and Gnostic's, confirm that Jesus was a real person. If they could, the best alternative for Christianity's enemies would have been to say Jesus never lived. But the evidence was too real and fresh--there were people still alive who knew Jesus or the Apostles. Their only alternative was to accept Jesus, but change his message.
which "mythology deities" are these, that say they are from the one true god, that created all things, and there are no other gods but "him", I thought ( and i may be wrong though ignorance ) that most other "mythology deities" conceded that there are many gods, half gods and so on, i don't know of any other that did what Jesus was said to do.
I realize these are my views and not yours, i would only ask of you that if your going to make statements about them that you understand what your talking about 1st.
My point is if i was to talk about some of your gods and got what they were about completely wrong would you not say "hey mate get your facts right 1st." i think most would.
Thank You.