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But them aliens have been around for billions n' billions of years fer christs sake, and have super-duper-pooper advanced technological abilities that look like miracles to us poor ignorant savages . Jezuz really was an alien visitor sent down to earth from heaven above. When he completed his missio...

Summary of reasons so far to doubt that Jesus was crucified: 1) No record of anyone being crucified in Israel in the first half of the first century outside of the Gospel account. 2) Paul/Fake Paul, writing at a time when crucifixion was all the rage in Israel, smells anachronistic. 3) Paul provide...

With god alone knows how many pseudo-Paul's, and editors contributing their beliefs to these texts, how could anyone pretend know just what parts of any text are the words of the original Paul, and which words and ideas have been added (or deleted) by latter self-styled 'Paul's' and editors? There a...

No No No! Only Paul had a vision, all of these others really really did see the hole riddled living dead carcass of zombie Jeezuz traipsing about don'cha know? Says so right there in Paul's letters an' in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, an Acts o' the Apostles. And they wouldn't make up anything. ...woul...

^He may have been. I don't know. I only use Applewhite and Jones etc. as extreme examples. Analogies are used as teaching tools to communicate ideas. Don't confuse them as me saying Paul and Applewhite are completely equivalent. By your use of Marshall Applewhite for your example, you seem to be su...

e.g. If you read through all the transcripts of Marshall Applewhite's preachings, you will find logical and theological inconsistencies all over the map. That is not enough to then conclude that he couldn't have said x because earlier he said y . Applewhite saw himself as the natural continuation o...

Paul may well be a literary device in toto ie. a literary character Could be, but if so, as presented, one unsavory untrustworthy character. Which from my perspective (him being a writers invention) it wouldn't matter in the least, because even as a solely literary character, he serves the purpose ...

If there's one thing I've learned from my studies in Judeo-Christian religion, it's that there are no rules when it comes to how people might interpret stuff. People are able to come up with rationalisations and create new branches of parent religions/denominations that fundamentally contradict the...

Since the inception of these texts there always have been differences of opinion on the interpretation of various statements. Christian Orthodoxy spent centuries in tightly dictating the range of acceptable interpretations, and ostracizing and or destroying any that ventured to offer anything they c...

It's weird to say that over 500 people "at one time" came to a conclusion from their study of the scriptures. It may be weird, but really not all that unusual in the history of religion, for a crowd of hundreds, even thousands, to hear a well delivered and persuasive Scripture citing serm...