Posted on 05/19/2005 9:31:48 AM PDT by mlc9852
Actually, I think it's the different interpretations that lend credence to an event. As a retired LEO, I would smell a rat if two witnesses got up in court and told the exact same story. Real life just doesn't happen that way.
Even if he had "written" about Troy (Homer's works were oral epics), it'd probably more like Dan Rather writing bathroom graffiti dis'ing our troops in Iraq.
"Fascination because it holds some of the lost masterpieces of classical literature . . ."
"Some "scholars", as in the so called "Jesus Seminar"."
Also occasionally known as "Gnostics on Crack". :]
Gee, ya think!? LOL
Well, you, my friend, know more about our Bible than I.
I'm not a very good Christian, either. I asked my husband once if he really thought he would get to Heaven, and he said: "Yeah, but I'll be on probation for a while."
Sounds like "Thomas" was Muslim.
ROFL...I'm going to have to remember that one.
I hope this isn't more mis-information from the "Jesus Seminar" frauds!
LOL. And how were ruled by the Burger King, his knight Big Mac, and his royal consort Wendy.
Just out of curiosity, why do you consider that any goofier than the following?
1 Corinthians, 14:34-35: "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."
Yes, I was aware that one and a half thousand years later the Roman Catholic church decides they are part of their cannon. Do you believe that is correct? They needed parts of those texts to help substantiate parts of their doctrine. Hence they added them to the Bible.
Gets worse than that...Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor in 300 AD stopped persecuting Christians "by decree of the Roman Emperor" and moved his palace to Instanbul, renaming the city Constantinople, creating Catholisism, and establishing "the Father, the Son and the holy Ghost" in heaven leaving himself in charge on earth, ruling for 1100 years before Mohammed the Conquerer invaded in 1453, burning the city and destroying the Roman collected original Christian biblical documents, killing Constantine the 11th and reclaiming Instanbul. Some 250 years later, King James I collected Hebrew, Greek Orthadox, Latin, and other versions of the Bible, and translating them into English and writing the the King James Bible for the Church of England.
1. The town we now know as Istanbul was founded in 600 BC by the Greeks and named Byzantium. It became part of the Roman Empire in 73 AD, and was renamed Constantinople after Constantine in 330 AD. Contantinople fell to the Muslims in 1453, and was referred to thereafter as Istanbul, though the name was not officially changed until the 1930's.
2. Constantine did not create Catholicism. Catholicism had already existed for some 300 years by the time Constantine converted to Christianity.
3. Constantine did not establish "the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost" in Heaven. The doctrine of the Trinity had existed for centuries before Constantine was born.
4. When Mehmet the Conqueror conquered Constantinple in 1453, he was not "reclaiming" anything. Constantinople had been Christian for centuries before Mohammed was even born.
5. Though Mehmet's goons violated Constantinople, the city as a whole was not burned, and countless "original Christian biblical documents" are safe and sound to this day.
That would be because they don't belong in the New Testament.
Isn't it nice how that works out?
Nice tagline ;-)
mostly cause they like gnosticism better.
I'd be much more interested if they found a c. 70-90 AD Aramaic copy of one of the Gospels.
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