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To: River Hawk

It may be the foundation of Christianity and it may also have been true.

The trouble is that there is NO documentation of those facts until many decades after the event and under two circumstances -
1. By Paul who never was known to have met anyone by the the name of Jesus or Jesua.
2. By the disciples who had not written ANYTHING for well over two full decades and then only at the urging of Paul.
3. The writings of the disciples was “probably” inscribed (by a single scribe) whos writings were strangely similar in most parts (or many party at least) which indicates a singular writer who elaborated of vague verbal recitation by the disciples.

Other “Roman” documentation mentions nothing about Jesus and/or his disciples by name but does mention that there were many “Self Proclaimed” Messiahs. John the Baptist was mentioned many times but considered harmless so they left him alone as he was apparently doing no harm and was actually helping keep the population calm and non violent.


13 posted on 03/31/2013 3:17:12 PM PDT by jongaltsr
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To: jongaltsr
Paul who never was known to have met anyone by the the name of Jesus or Jesua

Does the Damascus Road ring a bell?

20 posted on 03/31/2013 4:21:20 PM PDT by Former Fetus (Saved by grace through faith)
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To: jongaltsr
By Paul who never was known to have met anyone by the the name of Jesus or Jesua.

Read Acts. The road to Damascus. Whom did Paul encounter?

Hints: 5 letters, begins with J, ends with s....

21 posted on 03/31/2013 4:26:19 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: jongaltsr
The writings of the disciples was “probably” inscribed (by a single scribe) whose writings were strangely similar in most parts (or many parts at least) which indicates a singular writer who elaborated of vague verbal recitation by the disciples.

This is nonsense. Some basic literary analysis will convince even the most skeptical that the New Testament was not written by a single scribe.

Try opening the bible and reading it.

22 posted on 03/31/2013 4:29:44 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: jongaltsr

How sad for you.
Of course the accounts are similar there were eye witnesses.
Ever heard of Josephus.
When you are talking about “documentation” did you except they kept hard drives and passed them down through the years?
Or you are dismissing the first hand accounts of Jesus’ followers?
What documentation do you want?
2,000 years of history, when would yo be satisfied?


25 posted on 03/31/2013 5:27:45 PM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: jongaltsr

Since you are interested in documentation, please document: *your findings which document Paul never met Jesus
*your findings which document that Paul urged the disciples to write down their accounts AND they did not do this for decades
*your finding that documents a single scribe wrote all accounts
*your findings that documents no other accounts were written that mentioned Jesus


26 posted on 03/31/2013 5:32:31 PM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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