Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : History's effect on Religion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (332)	8/13/2005 5:58:34 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 520

How many Jesuses do you think there were ? There were many : Message 21600792 Josephus, the first century Jewish historian mentions no fewer than nineteen different Yeshuas/Jesii, about half of them contemporaries of the supposed Christ! In his Antiquities, of the twenty-eight high priests who held office from the reign of Herod the Great to the fall of the Temple, no fewer than four bore the name Jesus: Jesus ben Phiabi, Jesus ben Sec, Jesus ben Damneus and Jesus ben Gamaliel. What should alert us to wholesale fakery here is that practically all the events of Jesus’s supposed life appear in the lives of mythical figures of far more ancient origin. Whether we speak of miraculous birth, prodigious youth, miracles or wondrous healings – all such 'signs' had been ascribed to other gods, centuries before any Jewish holy man walked about. Jesus’s supposed utterances and wisdom statements are equally common place, being variously drawn from Jewish scripture, neo-Platonic philosophy or commentaries made by Stoic and Cynic sages. Stories and parables known to kings & carpenters , women and priests alike

To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (332)	8/14/2005 5:38:33 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 520

Now ex, you overstate your case. I have never stated that my position was undisputed fact. The authors I listed have made their case in a scholarly fashion providing numerous references to support their theses. I think they have made a fairly convincing case for their conclusions. However, I am open to non-faith based opposing arguments. None of the authors I cited depend on free web hosting. But you already knew that.