To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (230083 ) 4/20/2005 8:33:09 PM From: tejek Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572769 Ted, And the deal breaker.......Nazareth didn't even exist then or if it did, it was such a podunk it wasn't on any maps.... Here's the real shocker, Ted. Israel didn't exist then or if it did, it wasn't on any maps. Hence, one can contend that Israel is nothing more than a modern-day creation born out of "Zionist" revisionism. Oh wait, quite a few Yahooligans on this thread claim that ... Interesting post.....but what does it mean? And really, Ten, you can do better than to try and smokescreen your way out of this one: This is what the New Testament says about Nazareth: "And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a CITY of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. (Luke1.26,27) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the CITY of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; because he was of the house and lineage of David: (Luke 2.3,4)" And yet, even today, the CIA doesn't include a place on its West Bank map for Nazareth. And where are the other historical references: "• Nazareth is not mentioned even once in the entire Old Testament. The Book of Joshua (19.10,16) – in what it claims is the process of settlement by the tribe of Zebulon in the area – records twelve towns and six villages and yet omits any 'Nazareth' from its list. • The Talmud, although it names 63 Galilean towns, knows nothing of Nazareth, nor does early rabbinic literature. • St Paul knows nothing of 'Nazareth'. Rabbi Solly's epistles (real and fake) mention Jesus 221 times, Nazareth not at all. • No ancient historian or geographer mentions Nazareth. It is first noted at the beginning of the 4th century"And what have the Franciscan monks found in their diggings on what is supposed to be the site of Nazareth: NADA! "The world has been blessed by the fact that excavation at Nazareth has been conducted by Catholic archaeologists. In an earlier age they may well have "found" sandals neatly inscribed with "property of Jesus Christ". As it is, they diligently extract every last drop of sanctity from some pretty meagre findings. Yet for all their creative interpretations even the Franciscans cannot disguise the fact that the lack of evidence for a pre-Jesus village at the Nazareth site is virtually total. Not that the Franciscans have lacked the opportunity to find what they want to find; they have, in fact, been in Palestine for several centuries, official custodians of the 'Holy Land' as a result of Papal Bulls 'Gratias agimus' and 'Nuper charissimae' issued by Clement VI in 1342." jesusneverexisted.com The story of Jesus is beginning to sound more and more like a fable passed down from one generation to the next. ted