Ancient Confession Found: 'We Invented Jesus Christ'

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Nikolokolus said:
It's an interesting story, but 2000 years after the fact I find it incredibly unlikely that anything could be definitively proved one way or another regarding a historical Jesus.
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Unless he actually existed. It should be a piece of cake to prove if he was real. Look at all the famous people from then and before where we have solid proof they existed, but we have to take Jesus on faith alone.

If a fake, well it's pretty hard to prove a negative.
 
Dashboard Jesus?

dashboard+jesus.jpg
 
crandc said:
Actually the single sentence mentioning Jesus has been shown to have been added later. This was not unusual in those days for one scholar to add to another's writings. You'd think someone as important as Jesus supposedly was would rate more than one sentence in one historian's book.
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Link?
 
MARIS61 said:
Unless he actually existed. It should be a piece of cake to prove if he was real. Look at all the famous people from then and before where we have solid proof they existed, but we have to take Jesus on faith alone.

If a fake, well it's pretty hard to prove a negative.
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FWIW, I'm completely ambivalent about this topic. I'm not a Christian and I don't really care if he was really a person or not.
 
When "The Atheist Experience" doesn't back your claim of a false Jesus...

The Atheist Experience
This one goes out to everyone sharing this idiotic "Romans invented Jesus Christ!" link that's making the rounds. Joseph Atwill is an Alex Jones-level conspiracy crank who's been peddling this crap for some years now. Don't fall into the common trap of confirmation bias, just because you see something that appears to validate your skepticism of Christianity. The linked review (from 2005) is a wall of text, but it's by a real expert in the field (not a Christian apologist) who takes Atwill apart brick by brick.
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http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/rev_atwill.htm

As for me, I have other things to waste time on, so I won't go in-depth.
 
hoojacks said:
interesting, sure. unfortunately, the guy is fairly discredited as an actual academic so I wouldn't get too excited.
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HCP should send his kids to college to study linguistics.
 
The way I see it....

The anti-christs don't really need this to believe what they believe.

The Christians don't need this to solidify their faith.

Both sides screamed "who the fuck is this retard?!"
 
I'm not citing anything. I let the "atheist experience" do it for me. I didn't even read the link. I couldn't give two rips who Robert Price is.
 
BrianFromWA said:
I'm not citing anything. I let the "atheist experience" do it for me. I didn't even read the link. I couldn't give two rips who Robert Price is.
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Robert M. Price uses the same type of reasoning to discredit everything you believe about historical evidence for the divinity of Jesus as he uses to discredit Atwill. Kind of a double-edged sword for you.
 
You mean, "a double-edged sword for the atheist experience".

I couldn't care less about what atheists argue about Christ.
 
crowTrobot said:
Robert M. Price uses the same type of reasoning to discredit everything you believe about historical evidence for the divinity of Jesus as he uses to discredit Atwill. Kind of a double-edged sword for you.
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So you are saying you agree with atwill?
 
Lmao at this review of this hack!

http://tomverenna.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/no-joe-atwill-rome-did-not-invent-jesus/

But that is troubling–would you want to read a science book written by a layperson who hasn’t read a single relevant scientific study? Would you pick up a book on engineering written by someone with a background in computer science, and trust that book enough to build a house based upon its designs? I hope not. I sincerely hope that no one would agree to trust either of these books.

This is the issue with Mr. Atwill. He may sincerely believe he has discovered the secret code off a cereal box with his 3-D glasses he found inside; that doesn’t make him an expert in the subject, it doesn’t make him knowledgeable enough to give lectures on it. It certainly does not make him credible.

Mr. Atwill is just like all the other amateur-Scholar-wannabes who refuse to put in the time and effort to earn a degree in the field, who want to advance their pet theories to sell books and dupe you over. He relies on popular media and the ignorance of the layperson to score points rather than publishing in a credible academic journal or publishing academically. He knows he can’t do that, because he has no clue how academics work, how they think, or what they actually argue on the subject. He might as well claim that Jesus lived on Atlantis, which came from Mars. That theory is about as ridiculous as the notion that Rome invented Jesus.
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CAUTION: N-WORD (AND MANY OTHER SLURS) USED, BUT IT'S OK IN CONTEXT OF THE SONG
 
BrianFromWA said:
You mean, "a double-edged sword for the atheist experience".

I couldn't care less about what atheists argue about Christ.
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obviously you do. the clear implication of your post was that it's significant one atheist is discrediting another.
 
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