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- Sat Feb 24, 2024 1:47 pm
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: Did the Buddha Exist?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 17661
Re: Did the Buddha Exist?
This topic is being discussed here https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/su ... ical/32288 and here https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/ja ... ha/32581/5 .
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Who are scholars doubting the Historicity of Paul, and are any of them non-mythicists?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 300
Who are scholars doubting the Historicity of Paul, and are any of them non-mythicists?
They can be alive or dead, despite my title.
- Wed May 03, 2023 10:25 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Using ChatGPT
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2714
Re: Using ChatGPT
Has anyone set up a religion entirely fixed to chronology and various chronologies (i.e. 6000 AM, 490 years from Daniel, and "under Pilate") under a scenario where none of the things described in the narrative were historical? Yes! The Book of Mormon does exactly that. It keeps dating its...
- Wed May 03, 2023 10:23 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Is the claim that Jesus's historicity is irrelevant for Christian origins as controversial as mythicism is?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 12571
Re: Is the claim that Jesus's historicity is irrelevant for Christian origins as controversial as mythicism is?
Please show me this relevancy and it's similarity to early Christianity's year 6000 AM, 490 years from Daniel and "under Pilate" while maintaining that the messianic figure never existed. Well, do you believe that there is another world named Shambhala and that it has a human king ruling ...
- Wed May 03, 2023 10:19 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Is the claim that Jesus's historicity is irrelevant for Christian origins as controversial as mythicism is?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 12571
Re: Is the claim that Jesus's historicity is irrelevant for Christian origins as controversial as mythicism is?
A nefarious inner circle of evil men made up a lie. But such things keep happening in religion. Consider Mormonism, Mahayana Buddhism, and Yogi Bhajan's Sikhism, for example. All of them were based upon charismatic individuals who claimed, falsely, to have anciernt and true traditions which they ha...
- Wed May 03, 2023 10:14 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Is the claim that Jesus's historicity is irrelevant for Christian origins as controversial as mythicism is?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 12571
Re: Is the claim that Jesus's historicity is irrelevant for Christian origins as controversial as mythicism is?
The chronology is also essential to the Kalacakra Tantra.Secret Alias wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 10:08 am The chronology isn't superfluous. It's essential. As such it's not like all that you're citing here.
- Wed May 03, 2023 10:13 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Is the claim that Jesus's historicity is irrelevant for Christian origins as controversial as mythicism is?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 12571
Re: Is the claim that Jesus's historicity is irrelevant for Christian origins as controversial as mythicism is?
When I look at the gospel there's a chronology. Whether it is the Marcionite gospel or the Catholic gospel. It's not just a "novel." There is an overarching "chronology" where Jesus's appearance fits. The chronology isn't superfluous. It's essential. As such it's not like all th...
- Wed May 03, 2023 10:05 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Using ChatGPT
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2714
Re: Using ChatGPT
But my point was the chronology in Christianity is different and doesn't exist anywhere else. That is a point which is obvious and has no bearing upon the issue of how accurate the gospel(s) were/are - because people can devise fictitous or real stories and situate them along all manner of chronolo...
- Wed May 03, 2023 10:02 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Is the claim that Jesus's historicity is irrelevant for Christian origins as controversial as mythicism is?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 12571
Re: Is the claim that Jesus's historicity is irrelevant for Christian origins as controversial as mythicism is?
Just show me an example in Buddhism where: 1. a chronology was developed from some fixed point in history 2. a "messianic figure" is said to have appeared within that chronology and predicted from that chronology (i.e. prophesies, predictions, fortune telling) 3. and where that "mess...
- Wed May 03, 2023 9:44 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Using ChatGPT
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2714
Re: Using ChatGPT
How Ironic that you insist upon my providing citations to books or articles So you don't really have an argument. Just a bunch of links to general information about topics related to Buddhism. You are either lying or revealing that you did not understand my purpose in writing. This post Cite some d...