On Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 9:00:24 PM UTC-5, Samiya wrote: > > > > On 20-Jun-2019, at 11:28 PM, John Clark <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > References to what? I can't give original quotes from the man because nobody > who wrote about Jesus ever saw him, all we know about Jesus, assuming He exi > sted at all, comes from stuff written hundreds of years after He, that is > to say God, was nailed to a cross by humans so God could forgive humans for > eating an apple when told not to. > > John K Clark > > > Jesus was never nailed to the cross. > Adam was under a covenant , yet he disobeyed God and erred, while trying > to become immortal. >
Jesus is a mythic character. Did he exist at all? Well maybe somebody, probably Yoshua or Joshua etc, lived and said some of things attributed to Jesus. Was he crucified? Maybe, the Romans were pretty good at doing that; remember Sparticus and his 10,000 who lined the Appian Way. Where things get really dicey is with resurrection, and this is where total supernaturalism kicks in. It became a popular idea in the first century BCE to believe a god came to Earth as a man. Apollonius was thought to be in incarnation of the Hellenic god Apollo, Osiris was the son of the Egyptian god Isis, Zarathustra the incarnation of Zoroaster and it even impacted Hinduism with Krishna. This is in effect where the Jesus myth came from, where this trend impacted Judaism in the Temple period. It is not at all hard to think there may have been a man or maybe several around that time who said they were the God of Abraham come to Earth, or who became popularly thought to be God. This clearly runs afoul of the commandment to have no graven image of God. Adam is of course purely fictional. Characters in the Torah are pretty mythic in general, and they are somewhat two dimensional as well. The first character who may have some small prospect of actually existing is Joseph, maybe if we stretch things Abraham. These characters though probably reflect a number of men who ran around with ideas of a law giving God. The land promised to Abraham, called Palestine or the modern Israel, sat between the major civilizations of Egypt and the Chaldeans. So it is on a trade route, which makes it a problematic place to build a nation, but a lot of ideas went back and forth on caravans and this may have been the fertilizer for the idea of a God who sets things by laws and separates the holy from the ordinary. The only character in the Christian Bible who may have actually lived according to scripture is Paul. LC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/9aee053f-eaf5-42b9-bc52-ca450eca5665%40googlegroups.com.
