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Carotta explains IS here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvga-98x6Nk&t=25m36s

Is it plausible?

Leucius Charinus wrote:Christ-Helios in the Vatican tombs.

http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2011 ... an-tomb-m/

It's a Julian tomb, and it's under the center of the altar of Saint Peter's basilica.

Has it occurred to you that there might have already been funeral processions before Paul, so that the "dog and pony show" is redundant?

3. IF the Signs Gospel fills in the blanks, the blanks filled in are concerned with another Subject and not a "Jesus". Here is where the bus stops for many. The Roman/Flavian Hypothesis is simply not convincing to many, especially here on this site. So, move on if need be. Provisionally, ...

Does it make any difference to your suspicions if it turned out that Titus was one of the most common names in Roman history? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_(praenomen) Yes, because the more Tituses there are, the less probable it is that this is the Titus. But then I also think that the more f...

Josephus was a commander in Galilee. Do you think that affects this too?

OK, I have a hard enough time dealing with English. I don't know what "dis" means, but "dies" means "day" so that "dies pater" means something like "father day" or "day father", so Jupiter is kind of a god of the day and not just of the sk...

The gospel must have had less references to the OT, or even none at all. What is left of the gospels if you remove the OT references? And I'm not talking about Matthew's ham-fisted attempts at bending some ill-suited OT passages to his purpose, but all the alluded references that make up the bulk o...

The Crow wrote:True..I just cut it short for the sake of argument.

Dis and Dies are different. They're not the same.

The Crow wrote:

ghost wrote:Jupiter is called Dies Pater. He might be a sungod.

Dies Pater was the Roman god of the underworld.

That's Dispater aka Pluto.

http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/roma ... ty=jupiter
http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/roma ... eity=PLUTO