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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: bentway who wrote (485256)6/3/2009 2:20:15 PM
From: Steve Dietrich  Read Replies (4) of 1574002
 
It's called "diabolical mimicry."

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Satan did it to deceive: Various early church writers, such as Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyons; circa 120 CE to ?) Justin Martyr (Christian apologist; 100 to 165), Tertullian (Christian theologian; circa 160 to 220 +) concluded that the Pagan/Christian similarities were a Satanic attempt at "diabolical mimicry." Satan was said to have use "plagiarism by anticipation." That is, the Devil made a pre-emptive strike against the gospel stories centuries before Jesus was born. The reason was to confuse the public into thinking that Jesus was merely a copy of previous god-men. The goal was to demolish the credibility of Christianity in the people's eyes.

One might wonder why early Church writers were explaining away these contradictions if no such contradictions existed...

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