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Originally posted by saint4God
These faiths do want you to believe that the Bible is right where it says he existed, performed miracles and was a great teacher, but that the Bible was wrong on the death and resurrection part.
Originally posted by Vector J
On the whole 'blood and water' thing, I was told years ago that this effect could be achieved from the blood separating from the plasma it flows in, which I was told happens after death.
Originally posted by Neiby
Jesus did not die. One must have lived in the first place in order to die. Provide some incontrovertible evidence of his existence and we can continue the discussion.
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
What does the gospel say about Jesus dying?
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
When presented with the evidence presented, no doctor could ever be able to announce him dead.
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
When did Jesus ever say he was to be killed? Never.
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
Reading the first chapter of the Gospel of John, I find it impossible for Jesus to die.
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
How can God die?
“Christianity began as Gnosticism, refaced with falsehoods concerning a series of facts alleged to have been historical, but which are demonstrably mythical. By which I do not mean mythical as exaggerations or perversions of historic truth, but belonging to the pre-extant Mythos … It is obvious that the Roman Church remained Gnostic at the beginning of the second century, and for some time afterwards. Marcion, the great Gnostic, did not separate from it until about the year 136 A.D. Tatian did not break with it until long after that. In each case the cause of quarrel was the same. They left the Church that was setting up the fraud of Historic Christianity.” -Gerald Massey, “Gnostic and Historic Christianity”
“So Gnosticism was around long before so-called Orthodox Christianity. The conspirators used the word ‘Docetism’ to refer to those who refused to believe in the incarnation of Jesus. The earliest Gnostic-Christians were not even aware of claims that the Christ incarnated in Jesus.” -Acharya S., “The Christ Conspiracy” (48)
“The Docetae sects, for example, are supposed to have held that the transactions of
the gospel narrative did occur, but in a phantasmagoria of unreality. This,
however, is but a false mode of describing the position of those who denied that the
Christ could be incarnated and become human to suffer and die upon the cross. The
Christians who report the beliefs of the Gnostics, Docetae, and others, always assume
the actual history and then try to explain the non-human interpretation as an
heretical denial of the alleged facts. But the docetic interpretation was first, was prehistorical.” -Gerald Massey, “Gnostic and Historic Christianity”
“The Hindu version of the first couple was of Adima and Heva, hundreds if
not thousands of years before the Hebraic version, as has been firmly pointed out by
Hindus to Christian missionaries for centuries.” -Acharya S., “The Christ Conspiracy” (131)
“‘Mises’ is found in Syria, where he was pulled out of a basket floating in a
river. Mises also had tablets of stone upon which laws were written, and a rod with
which he did miracles, including parting waters and leading his army across the
sea. In addition, ‘Manes the lawgiver’ took the stage in Egypt, and ‘Minos’ was
the Cretan reformer. Jacolliot traces the original Moses to the Indian Manou: ‘This name of Manou, or Manes . . . is not a substantive, applying to an individual man; its Sanskrit signification is the man, par excellence, the legislator. It is a title aspired to by all the leaders of men in antiquity.’” -Acharya S., “The Christ Conspiracy” (169)
“There is no historical evidence for the existence of a man called Moses except in the
texts produced by the Levites and other writings and opinions stimulated by those texts … the official background to ‘Moses’ and his name have no historical basis. Nothing was known about the ‘Moses’ story, or the ‘plagues’ inflicted upon the Egyptians, until the Levites of Babylon wrote Exodus centuries after it was supposed to have happened. All the animals of Egypt were killed three times according to the story! What did they do, die and immediately remanifest? There was no murder of the first born of Egypt and so the Feast of the Passover has no historical basis, it was created as a result of a story invented by the Levites. Their references to the lamb’s blood on the doors is code for the ancient symbolism of the lamb. There is no official book in Hebrew which makes any mention of the Pentateuch (the laws of Moses) before the Levites went to Babylon. As for the Israelites being captive in Egypt, even Deuteronomy describes them as ‘strangers’, not slaves, in this period. So where did the name Moses come from? Every initiated person who attained the highest rank in the Egyptian mystery schools was called a Muse, Mose or ... Moses. Manetho, the Egyptian historian of the third century BC, quoted by the Jewish historian, Josephus, says that he was a priest at Heliopolis or ON (Place of the Sun), and that afterwards he took the name of Mosheh or Moses. The word Moses means: he who has been taken away, he who has been put out from the waters, who has been made a missionary, an ambassador, an apostle. The Chief Priest in the Egyptian temples was called EOVE or EOVA, hence the emergence of the name Jehovah, and the Hebrew language is really the sacred language of the Egyptian mystery schools.” -David Icke, “The Biggest Secret” (83-4)
“The word Kristo and its derivations, Krst, Krist, Kristo, Khyst, and Krish-na, all appeared in every ancient religious system and showed the original Kristo concept was believed to be the personal and invisible mediator and guide between God and everything spiritual in man. The Krist concept has been an ancient religious tradition continually suppressed by the Catholic church through the centuries.” -Tony Bushby, “The Bible Fraud”
“At the Council of Nicea were not only Christian leaders from Alexandria,
Antioch, Athens, Jerusalem and Rome but also the leaders of the many other cults,
sects and religions, including those of Apollo, Demeter/Ceres,
Dionysus/Bacchus/Iasios, Janus, Jupiter/Zeus, Oannes/Dagon, Osiris and Isis, and
‘Sol Invictus,’ the Invincible Sun, the object of Constantine’s devotion. The purpose
of this council was to unify the various competing cults under one universal or
‘catholic’ church, which, of course, would be controlled by Constantine and Rome.
As noted, Rome claimed the ultimate authority because it purported to be founded
upon the ‘rock of Peter.’ Thus, the statue of Jupiter in Rome was converted into ‘St.
Peter,’ whose phony bones were subsequently installed in the Vatican. In a typical
religion-making move, the gods of these other cults were subjugated under the new
god and changed into ‘apostles’ and ‘saints’ … As stated, it is maintained that during the Nicene Council the names Jesus and Christ were put together for the first time in the phrase ‘Jesus Christ’ or ‘Christ Jesus,’ uniting two of the major factions, with Jesus representing the Hesus of the Druids, Joshua/Jesus of the Israelites, Horus/Iusa of the Egyptians and IES/Iesios of the Dionysians/Samothracians, and Christ representing the Krishna/Christos of India, the Anointed of the Jews and KRST of Egypt, among others. It is thus alleged that the phrase ‘Jesus Christ,’ which had never been a name, does not appear in Greek or Latin authors prior to the first Council of Nicea.” -Acharya S., “The Christ Conspiracy” (236-7)
“There is no credible evidence whatsoever for the existence of Jesus. No archaeological evidence, no written evidence, nothing. So it is with Solomon, Moses, David, Abraham, Samson and countless other biblical ‘stars’. All we have are the Levite texts and the Gospel stories in their various versions. So desperate did the religious manipulators become to cross reference ‘Jesus’ that they inserted a pathetically obvious addition into the works of the ‘Jewish’ historian, Josephus, to support the unsupportable. More than 40 writers are known to have chronicled the events of these lands during the alleged time of Jesus, but they don’t mention him. A guy who did all the things that he was supposed to have done and no-one records it? Philo lived throughout the supposed life of Jesus and wrote a history of the Judeans which covered the whole of this period. He even lived in or near Jerusalem when Jesus was said to have been born and Herod was supposed to have killed the children, yet he doesn’t record any of this. He was there when Jesus is said to have made his triumphant arrival in Jerusalem and when he was crucified and rose from the dead on the third day. What does Philo say about these fantastic events? Nothing.” -David Icke, “The Biggest Secret” (100)
“No scholar believes that Osiris or Jupiter or Dionysus was an historical person promoted to the rank of a god, but exception is made only in favor of Jesus.” -Edouard Dujardin, “Ancient History of the God Jesus”
“When we say that he, Jesus Christ, our teacher, was produced without sexual union, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended into heaven, we propound nothing different from what you believe regarding the sons of Jupiter.” -Justin Martyr, “The First Apology of Justin”
“And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus. And in that we say that He made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have been done by Aesculapius.” -Justin Martyr, “The First Apology of Justin”
“The doctrine of the divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.” - US President John Adams
“It has served us well, this myth of Christ.” - Pope Leo X
“This whole affair of which we speak and preach, and which is called Gospel, has no
reference at all to any person that ever existed, or events that ever occurred upon
earth” - Rev. Robert Taylor, “The Devil’s Pulpit”
“The traditional history of Christianity is hopelessly inadequate to the facts. From our research into ancient spirituality it has become obvious that we must fundamentally revise our understanding of Christian origins in the most shocking of ways. Our conclusion, supported by a considerable body of evidence in our book, The Jesus Mysteries, is that Christianity was not a new revelation. It was a continuation of Paganism by another name. The gospel story of Jesus is not the biography of an
historical Messiah. It is a Jewish reworking of ancient Pagan myths of the dying and resurrecting Godman Osiris- Dionysus, which had been popular for centuries throughout the ancient Mediterranean.” - Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, “The Original Jesus”
“Jews do not accept Jesus as the Christ or the Messiah. They were the ones in the Middle East; it was their country, their language and their book. If they don't accept the story, there must be a reason why.” -Jordan Maxwell, “Matrix of Power”
“Nay, not only are there no proofs of the twelve tribes of Israel having ever existed,
but Herodotus, the most accurate of historians, who was in Assyria when Ezra
flourished, never mentions the Israelites at all…How is this possible?” -Madame
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 3
Originally posted by saint4God
Jesus foretold here:
"In any case, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day—for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem!" - Luke 13:33
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
When did Jesus ever say he was to be killed? Never.
How about here?:
"Jesus strictly warned them not to tell this to anyone. And he said, "The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life." - Luke 9:21
Also here:
"He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again." - Mark 8:31
And here:
"From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life." - Matthew 16:21
Originally posted by saint4God
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
What does the gospel say about Jesus dying?
Jesus foretold here:
"In any case, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day—for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem!" - Luke 13:33
And fulfilled here:
"With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last." - Mark 15:37
"And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, heard his cry and saw how he died, he said, "Surely this man was the Son of God!" - Mark 15:39
Do you think the Pharisees (and other Jews) were easily satisfied that the law was fulfilled here?:
"The Jews insisted, "We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God."- John 19:7
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
When presented with the evidence presented, no doctor could ever be able to announce him dead.
No doctor would pronounce anyone dead without seeing and examining the person for him/herself. What doctor present did you ask?
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
When did Jesus ever say he was to be killed? Never.
How about here?:
"Jesus strictly warned them not to tell this to anyone. And he said, "The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life." - Luke 9:21
Also here:
"He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again." - Mark 8:31
And here:
"From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life." - Matthew 16:21
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
Reading the first chapter of the Gospel of John, I find it impossible for Jesus to die.
Aha! The stigma is revealed. I can totally appreciate this acknowledgement.
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
How can God die?
A part of God died. The part that took on flesh and for a moment all the sins of mankind. When he died, the debt was paid. When he said "It is finished", the word recorded was "Tetelestai" which is also a financial term that means "The Debit is Paid In Full".
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Now Jesus, being the son of God didn't owe a debt. He was sinless. The man who knew no sin became sin for us. We owed the debt. When he said "it is finished", he was letting us know that indeed his payment was acceptable. If Jesus did not die, then man has no means of redemption, there is no saving grace, and the Bible is meaningless. This is why it is important for opposition to declare Jesus did not die.
[edit on 3-4-2008 by saint4God]
Originally posted by saint4God
Now Jesus, being the son of God didn't owe a debt. He was sinless. The man who knew no sin became sin for us.
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
How about him breaking the fifth commandment over and over?
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
He denied a disciple to bury his father,
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
he said Mary wasn't his mother
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
and he demanded that his followers should leave their parents among other things. Is this to honor your parents?
Originally posted by saint4God
I'm sure in your righteous judgement with what is and is not honorable in the eyes of God, you may seem qualified to assess the relationship between Jesus and his mother, but God Himself may have issue with that.
Originally posted by toasted
You should read "the book", there's a reason for everything in it and for when things happen and for why things happen.