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Originally posted by paradox
Originally posted by Jim Scott
They wrote on papyrus, which is animal skin.
LOL.
Originally posted by smithjustinb
reply to post by MagnumOpus
But were people talking about Jesus during the biblically reported time of Jesus's existence or 100 years after?
Originally posted by smithjustinb
reply to post by MagnumOpus
You still didn't answer my question. I'm looking for one of two words as an answer, not 5 paragraphs. Before or after?
Originally posted by MagnumOpus
Originally posted by smithjustinb
reply to post by MagnumOpus
You still didn't answer my question. I'm looking for one of two words as an answer, not 5 paragraphs. Before or after?
You can ask a question with trying to force an answer for either before or after, but the answer is both occured.
It only speaks to how little you know the subject.
Jesus was spoken by the Romans, by the temple folks, by the people before.
Jesus was spoken about in the issues of the Disciples, Constatain afterwards.
You look for an answer that can't be answered with truth by selection of one or the other.
Thus, your game is up.
I love this one. Have you compared the Isaiah in the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Isaiah in the present-day King James Version of the Bible? Virtually identical in every sense. So, where are these numerous changes? And you can expect that same accuracy for the rest of the Bible, my friend.
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The scrolls are traditionally identified with the ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, though some recent interpretations have challenged this association and argue that the scrolls were penned by priests, Zadokites, or other unknown Jewish groups.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are traditionally divided into three groups: "Biblical" manuscripts (copies of texts from the Hebrew Bible), which comprise roughly 40% of the identified scrolls; "Apocryphal" or "Pseudepigraphical" manuscripts (known documents from the Second Temple Period like Enoch, Jubilees, Tobit, Sirach, non-canonical psalms, etc., that were not ultimately canonized in the Hebrew Bible), which comprise roughly 30% of the identified scrolls; and "Sectarian" manuscripts (previously unknown documents that speak to the rules and beliefs of a particular group or groups within greater Judaism) like the Community Rule, War Scroll, Pesher.
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The fragments span at least 800 texts that represent many diverse viewpoints, ranging from the beliefs of the Essenes to those of other sects.
The Bible was written carefully in temperature/humidity controlled conditions by monks who were checked and cross-checked. They wrote on papyrus, which is animal skin.
A mission from Hong Kong found Noah's Ark.
Contrarily, if people didn't start talking about Jesus, until say, 100 years after the documented time of Jesus's death, then I would say that Christianity is probably undoubtedly a human-made control mechanism.
You see my point? If Jesus actually did exist, he would have, historically, been the word on the street in the Biblically reported time of Jesus's existence and all that hype would have then been passed down from generation to generation coming from people who actually witnessed Jesus firsthand.
However, if people didn't even know about Jesus until the Bible came out, then Jesus is a lie.
Who do the Romans, under Constantine, find but the Prophet Jesus fits what they want politically. Jesus for the Romans became the replacement for Yahwah.
Originally posted by autowrench
Who do the Romans, under Constantine, find but the Prophet Jesus fits what they want politically. Jesus for the Romans became the replacement for Yahwah.
Respectively, wasn't Jesus really a ripoff of Mithra, the popular Roman God?
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Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
True atheists do not proselytize, and you wouldn't see them in a religion forum "fighting the heathen" while claiming that their belief that there is no God or gods is not a belief but a "lack of belief" by using flowery words to decieve themselves.