new nonsense from Joe Atwill

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Ancient Confession Found: 'We Invented Jesus Christ'

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http://uk.prweb.com/releases/2013/10/prweb11201273.htm
Biblical scholars will be appearing at the 'Covert Messiah' Conference at Conway Hall in London on the 19th of October to present this controversial discovery to the British public
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... mi6lN5b0Ic

[Atwill]

How government operates. The tools government uses.
The purpose that government had for the various propaganda apparatuses ....

The Gospels came from the Flavian imperial court.
A "cobbler of fables" [Augustine]; "Leucius is the disciple of the devil" [Decretum Gelasianum]; and his books "should be utterly swept away and burned" [Pope Leo I]; they are the "source and mother of all heresy" [Photius]
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Re: new nonsense from Joe Atwill

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Roger Pearse wrote: Just because someone is wrong does not mean that they may not be useful to us all. It is those who discourage interest that do the real harm, not the over-enthusiastic fringe people.
I read this somewhere, forgot where; "It is not what we don't know that causes most of our ignorance; it is what we do know that ain't so". Conserning the infallibility of the bible as "God's Word" many evangelicals state "God said it; I believe it; and that settles it". When people limit "their truth" to their limited knowledge and personal beliefs, the conversation is over. Most of history is filled with faulty facts (the earth is flat) based on limited information. Who knows; in the future Atwill's folly may become tomorrow's truth; whether we ever admit it or not.

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Re: new nonsense from Joe Atwill

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Unless Atwill has some secret evidence then there is no known evidence that the Romans invented the Jesus Christ character.

Up to at least c 133 CE the Romans fought with those who expected a Messianic ruler.

The Romans Hijacked the religion of the Jesus cult sometime in 4th century and made Jesus their Lord and God of God.
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Re: new nonsense from Joe Atwill

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Did Atwill get his start on this theory from Abelard Reuchlin's "The True Authorship of the New Tesatement?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqjKnnDxRUc

This is getting deeper and weirder.

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Re: new nonsense from Joe Atwill

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The basic idea is apparently as old as the 19th century.
"... almost every critical biblical position was earlier advanced by skeptics." - Raymond Brown
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