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"Just saw this on Facebook. Why if the gospel is a historical account are there no mention of nails being driven in Jesus's hands. The stigmata are important to Christian theology and by association Paul - but no specific mention of Jesus's hands (and feet) being penetrated by nails" the g...

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/13890 Within the confines of what was then the Roman Empire, long before and during the dawn of Christianity, there were many dying-and-rising gods. And yes, they were gods—some even half-god, half-human, being of divine or magical parentage, just like Jesus ...

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https://celsus.blog/2018/01/12/numismat ... e-gospels/


i think m ferguson has argued the same

Just that morning two other people were crucified with Jesus. Did someone ask for and receive their bodies for burial? Or was it just Jesus? And what about the people crucified the day before, and the day after, and the day after that? Or was it just Jesus? If it was every Jew who was ever crucifie...

All critical scholars say that the parts of 'Daniel' where "Daniel" predicts the looting of the temple and killing of Jews by Antiochus IV, were written after these events. And "Mark" used the same device by having Jesus predict future events which happened before the gospel was...

Richard carrier recently replied to a christian apologist. He said that mark not only tells that the women told him anything(they said nothing to anyone) , but peter did not even witness an empty tomb. Mark was Matthews source and even in Matthew peter never visits an empty tomb.

Alexander, yes, priestly writers would have been well pissed with mark 7. YHWH is a HOLY god. His commands are holy. YHWH says that certain foods do defile.

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Alexander, your quote from the above link

Bart October 23, 2017 Do you think Pilate made an exception for the other two crucified with Jesus? And for the the people crucified the next day? And the day after that? And that in fact Jews around jerusalem were always buried, and that *this* was Roman policy? Seems highly implausible to me. Bar...

i am not the author of the quote. i asked a question and then i placed a quote in the op.

i don't know what mark 7:1-23 is saying when people can't even decide what 7:19 is saying .

are all foods kosher before they are eaten ? is there a difference between clean and kosher?