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Your qualifier of "recent" may or may not apply all that much. Why would that matter? It could be that Jesus existed...It could be that he did not. That is the question. You seem to be suggesting it's evidence that he existed because Alexander existed. But it's two separate cases. You seem to be mi...

So....I'm suggesting Paul was the first to write about Jesus. Mark was second, in the historical record. They both were diaspora Jews, steeped in Greek and Roman thought. There is no clear evidence that either of them got stories or material from anyone else regarding who Jesus was or what he shoul...

But I figure the silliness of this ought to be highlighted in hopes people take modern scholarship a bit more seriously. I think I read that MacDonald himself believes Jesus actually existed. M. David Litwa, another scholar who says studies of the gospels should engage more with Greek mythology, al...

I agree stem, it would be helpful to know what the basic timeline of your hypothesis is. Who started it, who created what and why, ect. This is the key thing. I can give you what I consider a probable reconstruction of how Christianity emerged, including a (very rough) timeline for the process and,...

Hunter is safe because his Dad won the election and ultimately controls what congress and the American people are allowed to see. They can stonewall forever. We knew all this when Trump was president and the deep state was still able to lie and protect the Biden Crime family. And this is why people...

Cube 7 wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 20, 2023 1:48 pm

sharp brains and outstanding intellect

As the British say:

Pull the other leg, it's got bells on.

I thought someone argued that they would not sacrifice someone just for having a different belief. Was that Ritner's position? Yes, and that of every non-apologetic Egyptologist. Religion in ancient Egypt worked profoundly differently from religion as we think of it. One of the core functions of th...

Kishkumen wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 09, 2023 1:54 pm

I forgot you are a non-Mo! It is great to have you here. You have one of the best names, too.

Thank you very much!

As a non-Mormon, I agree. I ended up on this board because I was looking up the dispute between Robert Ritner and John Gee regarding the Book of Abraham. I hung around because some of the conversations were pretty interesting, and in the process, I learned far more about Mormonism than I would have ...

So progressuves should have no problem banning abortions after a fetus is 6 months old or more? Nonsense, huh? A ban on abortions after six months, except in cases like Chap describes ("when there is a direct choice between the life of the mother and the life of the fetus, or when the fetus is so g...