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Your original point was to support your idiotic contention that there were no witnesses to Christianity before Nicaea. None of these sources do that - so shut the fuck up. Without dumbass quote mining, he'd have nothing to say. And avi should be ashamed for promoting it. I'd like to see the forum m...

"Jesus was a white man, too. He was a historical figure. That’s a verifiable fact." [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV_9ch2kQ3c#t=118[/youtube] [youtube]http://youtu.be/LV_9ch2kQ3c[/youtube] [youtube]<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/...

As Chester observes, it’s really the evidence that seems to require the conclusion that Jesus-devotion erupted rapidly and originated in circles of Jewish Jesus-followers in Judea . That conclusion (with variations in emphases) is now supported by a wide (and growing) spectrum of scholars. (a retir...

Herculean task, you say? Sounds like fun.

But the Gospel of Mark was written in the 1st/2nd AD and refers to Pilate, a figure of the 1st AD. It may still be a work removed from the description of the real world even then, but it is in that case a good question why it would choose to refer to the end coming in the lives of some of those sta...

It's possibly relevant, and at the end of the day a small modicum of probability against a hypothesis might be wrung out from this argument, but it would have to sit next to other arguments (some of which I, at least, take to be more straightforward and probative).

Regardless of DuvDuv's position on this matter, in my opinion, any idiot can recognize that FAITH is absolutely required to believe in the divinity of any of these religious figures. There exists no evidence of any kind to support the Mormons, the Jews, the Christians, the 7th day Adventists, the S...

And so, without further ado, let's get into some of the basic talking points, trying to go over as many as possible briefly. For the Historicity of Jesus (3) In the synoptics ( Mark 9:1 etc. ) and John (the 21st chapter), as well as in similar more-developed echoes in 2 Peter, there is reference to...

Peter, maybe there is something wrong with me Seems that way. What do you find "idiotic" about it? The argument for a historical Moses and the idea that faith must be used to reach any conclusions regarding ancient Judaism or Christianity. why do you focus on my accolade directed toward a...

Of course these scholarly nitwits will never admit that Jesus started as a god (or THE angel of the presence) and was later developed into a person unless someone spikes the punch at an SBL conference with LSD. I don't recommend this and it certainly won't be me. isu = ishu ('His man' i.e. the firs...