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The gospel writers are not historians. They are not collating oral history or reporting eyewitness testimony. They are very carefully writing myth. Not as mythic as, say, Genesis 1-11, but myth nonetheless. False. There were writing "their version" of history. Which happened to be steeped...

Any debate over the historicity or ahistoricity of the gospel Jesus figure that holds that "as evidence, the gospels simply make no difference to the equation" is shooting itself in the foot. Agreed. It is evidence. Only the quality of said evidence can be debated. The failure to provide ...

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outhouse wrote:Now its better to understand why some scholars agree.

Thank you. Which scholars agree that the Star of Bethlehem was "probably" the 44 BCE Comet Caesar? Would you mind referencing your sources?

I believe I heard it from Crossan and Johnathosn Reed

Brad Watson, Miami wrote: Dan Brown wrote a very good fictional story

We know.



Do you any credible evidence that may back up your claim.

Brad Watson, Miami wrote:In the beginning

You might wish to find an apologetic forum that has no interest in history or science.


We do not "do" pseudoscience here, unless your a mythicist lol

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It's the same god, and they are the same histories, Really, so all these gods are static and the concept never evolves. And what time period are you dealing with exactly? It surely is not the first husdred years we are dealing with here in context. In context, they are not the same gods by definiti...

So if there's not one monumental influence, then Christianity is fiction, mixed together from all over the place? There is one monumental influence. Judaism is the foundation of Christianity. So much so it is the vast majority of Christiaity. The one all powerful Jewish god still is the one true go...

Now its better to understand why some scholars agree. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%27s_Comet was perhaps the most famous comet of antiquity. The seven-day visitation was taken by Romans as a sign of the deification of the recently dead dictator, Julius Caesar Caesar's Comet was one of only fi...

How did you manage to conclude that the Star of Bethlehem was "probably" the 44 BCE Comet Caesar rather than one of the above? You would have to read someone elses reply to understand that. The Hellenistic authors of the NT were often making parallels to the Emperors divinity, and its fun...