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Now that I think about it - James Bond and Ian Flemming - are a pretty good example of what has happened with the gospel Jesus story. The created literary figure of James Bond has had many actors play the part in movies. As the gospel Jesus historicsts have supplied many versions of their, assumed,...

In the mid 17th century the Catholic priest John Bolland and his team investigated the historicity of virtually all named Catholic saints, declaring huge numbers of their accounts to be ahistorical. Though his work was initially supported by the papacy, his writings ended up on the Roman Index of P...

According to Acts there was supposedly great fear over the management of money, property and tithing for the church industry. The penalty for mis-management was death by the hand of the Most High: 1 Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. 2 With his w...

Some of these have already been mentioned above. 1517 - The Reformation - started with the publication of the Ninety-five Theses, authored by Martin Luther. 1532-1583 - “supreme producer of epigraphic forgeries” unquestionably belongs to Pirro Ligorio (c. 1512–83). 1560-1966 - Publication of the Ind...

Now that I think about it - James Bond and Ian Flemming - are a pretty good example of what has happened with the gospel Jesus story. The created literary figure of James Bond has had many actors play the part in movies. As the gospel Jesus historicsts have supplied many versions of their, assumed,...

4) All other epigraphic and physical manuscript evidence related to the nation of the Christians appears in the 3rd century with nothing from the first two centuries other than this "discovery" from the 1st century which within days disappeared under the Pompeii rainstorms. /// If the que...

Chrissy Hansen wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:28 amI have never found a single convincing piece of evidence that anyone denied the historicity of Jesus prior to the 1600s.

Did you check those books listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum of 1560?

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"For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist." (2 John 1:7) Pete I'm not sure this NT text can be taken both ways. I don't know any Greek - but the wording is strange if the writer was attempti...

Is this not also completely consistent with the claim made in 2 John 1:7? It appears to me that the claim made in 2 John 1:7 is consistent with both views. How do we rule one out and one in? Because we have examples of early people who seemed to have believed that there was a Jesus who was there bu...