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Did Jesus Christ actually exist or is he purely a mythical figure?
Can anyone point me to any text, specifically secular histories of the time, that make an authentic reference to Jesus Christ or the events of his supposed life? Or is the christian Bible the only book that mentions him? |
Every time I look at you
I don't understand Why you let the things you did Get so out of hand You'd have managed better If you'd had it planned Now why'd you choose such a backward time And such a strange land? If you'd come today You could have reached the whole nation Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication Tell me what you think About your friends at the top Now who d'you think besides yourself Was the pick of the crop? Buddah was he where it's at? Is he where you are? Could Muhammmed move a mountain Or was that just PR? Did you mean to die like that? Was that a mistake or Did you know your messy death Would be a record breaker? |
JC is a fiction....
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JC existed.
Now if he was son go God, that is definately up to debate. |
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Can you supply me with a reference to him outside of the Bible? |
Jesus lived, and even Islam and several other religions knew he lived and recognize him as a gifted prophet and teacher, if not the son of god. I'm sure he did exist too but it's pretty easy for people to turn a person into a divinity. Look at Egypt, Rome, and many other countries that characterized their rulers as divine.
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Can you supply me with a reference to him outside of the Bible?[/b][/quote] Yes, and when I get a chance I will look it up. Apparently there were a lot of regligious type texts that never made it into the Bible. A whole collection was found not to long ago, called the Dead Sea Scrolls. I am sure you have heard of it.... type it into google, you might find all kinds of info on it. Off hand I remember reading about a text that describes Mary and Joseph, and their other kids - Jesus' brothers and sisters. It was interesting to see how some regligious leaders tried to explain it away back in the day... since the Catholic Church maintained Mary was a virgin and stayed one. They basicly said all the kids were Josephs from a previous marriage.... I think even a few books in the Bible - either Matthew, or Mark mentioned Jesus' brother. Remember the New Testament while a bunch of stories for lessons, is part History book. We know that the deciples were real, and some of their tombs have been found. |
Who has seen the movie The Order?
It's pretty cool, gives you a new idea on what Jesus was, and the whole thing about "he died to take away your sins"... well... whoever made this movie spent a lot of time thinking about the meaning behind that. It's pretty cool. |
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Apparently there were a lot of regligious type texts that never made it into the Bible. A whole collection was found not to long ago, called the Dead Sea Scrolls. I am sure you have heard of it.... type it into google, you might find all kinds of info on it.[/b][/quote] I am mainly talking about secular references. There were Roman historians... surely someone as controversial as Jesus would rate a mention. |
Wow. Never done this search before. Joe, check it out:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navc...rences+to+jesus Some interesting looking stuff there *goes back to browse* |
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You are the kid who never did his own homework huh? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sh...shows/religion/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sh...y/perpetua.html http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/sco...ser/hojfaq.html I could go on and on..... |
This entire forum seems to be dedicated to debating whether things are true or not www.investigatemagazine.com
Check out this post about the great flood I found there http://www.investigatemagazine.com/_IDdisc...c2/0000012a.htm Quote:
Edit: PS the title of this forum post is "Did the Kiwi migrate from Mt Ararat?" if you want to go dig it up yourself. Last edited by Carrie at Jan 22 2004, 12:24 AM |
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On this page the writer quotes 5 other (non-biblical) texts that make reference to Jesus:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9...BiblicalRef.htm I find this whole thing fascinating :) |
Hmmmmm... you people should look more closely at the links you dig up.
I have been going through them and I am still yet to find a contemporaneous secular reference to Jesus that is not undisputed or considered an interpolation. Keep trying. |
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Reference #2: Was written over a century after Jesus supposed crucifiction. Reference #3: Refers to "Chrestus" and was written 120 years after jesus supposed crucifiction. Reference #4: Mentions an allusion to Christ. No quote included. 200 years after Jesus' supposed crucifiction. Reference #5: Highly disputed. Josephus was born 37 years after Jesus' crucifiction. I'm not even going to go into the fact its on Geocities. :o You wouldn't make much of a scholar! |
Sid Vicious died for my sins
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Jesus, I am overjoyed to meet you face to face.
You've been getting quite a name all around the place. Healing criples. Raising from the dead. And now I understand you're God? At least, that's what you've said. So, you are the Christ, you're the great Jesus Christ. Prove to me that you're devine; change my water into wine. That's all you need do, and I'll know it's all true. Come on, King of the Jews. |
Joe if you want undisputed I think you need to take a look around, lol.
You can never get 10 people to agree on anything! Right now, for example. We've got a little vehicle on Mars. Cool 'nuff. It's sending back pictures. Double cool. But wait a minute... the color in these pictures is off. The most pressing evidence of this is the color wheel itself welded onto the side of the vehicle to provide accurate color representation which to base the photos against. The photos have been so oversaturated and color-corrected with red that the color wheel itself is screwed up! Compare the pictures sent back from Mars with the pictures of the module just before it launched. You can clearly see the difference in the color wheel. Before launch, without color correction, all of the colors are true and in their proper spots. But in the phots coming back from Mars, the colors are all skewed so badly that blues are coming out as reds! But can you get folks to agree that someone is tampering with the color corrections? Nope... Add to it that back in the 70's when the first little module went up to Mars, noted authors, scientists, and high-achieving high school students (interns really) were invited over to Nasa to take part. Carl Sagan himself writes about the first image showing up line by line, a huge hush over the crowd, and then a roar of elated joy as the picture was revealed and the expansive BLUE sky of Mars shone before them. And then his anger and confusion over why the same picture that was released to the paper showed a RED sky. A high school student (at the time) tells of watching technicians skirting around the viewing room turning up the color on all of the television monitors so that everything literally glowed red and the Martian sky no longer appeared blue. Confused about this, the student went around and turned all of the settings back to where they were supposed to be... and summarily was called into an office with his overseeing teacher and a few Nasa officials and was told if he changed the colors back to normal again, he'd be escorted off of the property and not invited back. With this, even today, there is proof. Is it disputed? Hell yeah... there will always be detractors on both sides of an issue and certainly folks with an agenda or a career to worry about. You could look up at the sky tomorrow morning and declare "the sky is blue" and someone to your left will say "no it's not, it's teal" while a color-blind person will say "that's blue? It looks green to me"... The key is keeping your mind open to possibilities and not shutting down simply because it's something that you don't WANT to hear/read/see. Personally I think there are dozens, if not hundreds, of documents regarding Jesus and God and all sorts of other things that only a few "exalted" eyes ever get to see; stored in the catacombs of the Vatican. Goodness knows that the assembly there makes judgements on what it feels "the people" are "ready" to see and know, and they have a vested interest in hiding anything that would even hint at shaking the foundation of Christianity - and for a long, long time, they had the power and the reach to find these documents (and even the people who wrote them) and make them just "disappear". Does that make me a detractor? Yeah. Does it make me a non-Christian? Yes, to some. Do I give a good shit? Nope. I look at it this way... it doesn't hurt to keep an open mind. I'll learn some really cool things along the way. And if there *is* a God, I'm definitely sure that when it comes my time to meet him, he won't mind me using my power of free will to ask questions and explore everything I possibly could have. I don't even think He will mind me calling him by other names. Surely someone(?) who came up with this screwy human race has to have a sense of humor, at least. And if it's all wrong and we just fade off into the blackness when it's all over, well then, it still did me no harm to question and learn, did it? Learning is never a waste of time and everyone enjoys a good story. :) |
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I'm a firm believer that Jesus was a time traveller.
His resurrection and shit, he just went back again. I also have intresting theories on the universe, but I don't have time to write 'em up. |
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hmm.... |
Could this be the oldest evidence of Jesus?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_ea...ast/2349325.stm |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/22/...ain564544.shtml |
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So.. what if Jesus existed?
There very well could have been a I am a MORON, called Jesus and he was a good man and crap, but no son of god. There has to be some foundation to the story. |
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Carrie as a photographer, you know as well as I do that the sky is cyan... :P |
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Joseph Flavius, Roman historian who LIVED at the same time Jesus supposedly lived and NOT 300 years later when New Testament was written, has NO REFERENCES to Jesus.... It's a nice story, but...it's ONLY a story |
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:yowsa:[/b][/quote] :okthumb: |
Jesus, shmisus...I presonally much more intererested in his brother Steve....
;-))) imagine him introdusing himself.. Hello, My name is Steve Christ! THAT would be cool! ;-))) |
See this thread for my thoughts on JC
http://www.greenguyandjim.com/board/showth...=&threadid=4085 |
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Cleo - it was great seeing you and Luna in Vegas! You're both looking fab-u-lous! :) |
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Actually I missed so many people that it is sad. Personally I like the Florida show a whole lot more as I find it much better for doing business and a whole lot easier to find people. Seems like I spent most of the show trying to find people most of who I never did find. :( |
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Jesus spoke to me once. Something about there being an after life.
It was very real. |
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You do realize, don't you, that simply typing that again would've been less work than typing the "see my comments" line and link? :) |
I heard the same thing about Socrates being a figment of Plato's creative imagination. Who really cares, a mechanism is a mechanism, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain; just toss your money in and pass the plate.
Last time I was in church, I made change from a twenty and walked with $40.00, great conversion...don't frown, would you rather I shaved webmasters? |
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I just spoke to Jesus and he said he didn't exist and imagining that he was talking to me , was psyhcotic episode. ;-)))) How come if G-d speaks to you can become a TV Star, politician , or athlete , but if you hear voices telling you "all women are dirty ,and you must kill them and cut off there nipples serve them on lightly buttered toast " the men in white coats drag you away ? ;-)))) |
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Thought you might go the Krispy Kreme's route :devil: |
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Thought you might go the Krispy Kreme's route :devil:[/b][/quote] Vick, I thought you'd know that grilled nipples are best with toast , maybe some stilton and a good port :) |
It's a nice story, but...it's ONLY a story[/quote]
...it's actually not that nice of a story, in reality it wasn't very coherent or inspiring, doesn't translate very well into modern times. just think if we swapped JC for Bruce Lee; then that would have been the shit. BL dropping a solid asskicking on all those slackjawed pukes. since the "son of god" thing is a bit far fetched, even for a teen coming of age movie, maybe we could make god, Bruce Lee's karate master who was killed and BL came back to avenge his untimely demise. that would make for a more believable story and validate mr. nietzsche claim as well. |
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i am surprised that no one has the balls to just ask R_n.
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I don't need ANOTHER C&D!!! |
All of us are Sons of God.
JC is a collective image. Told by prophets and edited by late Christians |
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