His trump card is and always has been 'I know you are but what am I?'

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Not really. Unlike you, I simply say whatever needs to be said at the particular moment.

 

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I rest my case.

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I say no, there was probably someone with that name and was followed by many people believing he was a saint and a man with powers. I like to think about it like this. 2000 years ago they had nothing else to do so they made up all these stories and found a man ( called him Jesus ) and lived there stories through him. So im saying there was no walking on water no burning bushes and no parting the red sea. They may have hung this man ( Jesus ) on a cross and put his body in a cave. Thats my opinion and I grew up in a catholic family and 12 years in a catholic school.
No facebook, xnxxx, ipods, iphones back 2000 years ago

 

I'm not sure the authenticity of this find has been independently confirmed but a Harvard Professor has released a paper on a tiny scrap of 400 year-old papyrus in which Jesus refers to his wife.

Its causing quite stir among Christians and scholars both.

Here's a pretty good story on it.

http://www.boston.com/2012/09/19/ha...scrutinized/JNwbTDjsmTA6JyAuR4XGUJ/story.html

 

That is an interesting article. During the time of Christ about five to ten percent of the population of the Roman Empire could read and write. It is always possible that a document will be discovered that gives plausible evidence of being an eye witness account to the ministry of Jesus.

Whoever or whatever Jesus was (or is) most scholars of his life and times will agree that he was a charismatic Jewish holy man who attracted attention. He is the kind of person an officer in the Roman Army would have written home to his wife about.

 

"An interesting article". Well I read it and more people are standing up and saying it is possibly a fake than those who think it is real.

A scrap of paper from the 4th century CE, with no provenance and no actual context of the message, is more than likely a fraud, with someone trying to sell her collection of papers it stinks of fraudulence.

Good luck though, and you will need it because this is going to get a deep thumbs down.

 

The age of a scrap of paper from the 4th century AD can be determined fairly accurately by carbon 14 dating. If this document can be dated to that time it means only that back then some people believed that Jesus had a wife. That alone is significant.

A scrap of paper from the first half of the second century AD has been found that contains part of the Gospel of St. John. This means that by that time the Gospel of St. John had been written, and copied, and was in circulation.

 

If the scrap passes ink tests and carbon dating, then it only proves that someone named Jesus had maybe married, the name could have been a popular name amongst christians as Mohammed is amongst muslims.

So it offers no proof what so ever, just the possibility. If it passes the tests.

 

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Why in Jesus name has this thread been 'resurrected'????

There is no question that Jesus was an actual, documented, living human being, so the thread's question is totally stupid.

Whether you believe he was the Son of God or not, whether you believe he was a prophet or not, does not matter.

He existed. Period.

What will be asked next?

Was Richard Nixon actually a real person? Joe DiMaggio? Does Ringo Starr actually exist?

How ignorant.

 

It is Easter so he rose again or as you said, "'resurrected'" !!!

But I guess you are talking to AZ.....

 

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We believe what we want to believe but sometimes some of our beliefs are more correct than others

To me he did not exist to others he may have, but who knows but the man in the moon

 

Im an athiest and i thought for a while he was just completely made up. But he did exist and he was crucified. There is a lot of evidence. So Christians one up for you there was a jesus, but he was just a jewish rabbie nothing more.

 

We might have known so much more about Jesus if the info regarding John the Baptist wasn't discarded (or even destroyed) by early Christians...

 

yeh

he was like john lennon or nelson mandela , but with no internet and fuck all to do but listen to profound individuals..i.m.o. he was just a great whew got blown up alll out of proportion.

 

Hate

The Jews and the Romans hated Christ. If the stories of Christ were a lie they would've been wiped from history. They would've died when he did.