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The Fabrication of Jesus Christ

  

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Via:  hal-a-lujah  •  8 years ago  •  3 comments

The Fabrication of Jesus Christ


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Hal A. Lujah
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link   seeder  Hal A. Lujah    8 years ago

This is a very fair analysis.  Bart Ehrman has made similar statements regarding how unusual it would be for a lie to be made up of whole cloth, yet rely on wholly unrealistic details as part of its narrative.  If you're going to make up a story, then generally the story would be straight forward without strange inconsistencies that don't help to advance the believeability of the story.  In short, even Christopher Hitchins, the most notorious atheist of our times, is open to the possibility that there is a germ of truth in the concept of Jesus being an actual human being at some time in history.  Unfortunately for Christians, that does nothing to validate any of the stories fabricated about that person over time.

 
 
 
Hal A. Lujah
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link   seeder  Hal A. Lujah    8 years ago

"The historical problems with Luke are even more pronounced. For one thing, we have relatively good records for the reign of Caesar Augustus, and there is no mention anywhere in any of them of an empire-wide census for which everyone had to register by returning to their ancestral home. And how could such a thing even be imagined? Joesph returns to Bethlehem because his ancestor David was born there. But David lived a thousand years before Joseph. Are we to imagine that everyone in the Roman Empire was required to return to the homes of their ancestors from a thousand years earlier? If we had a new worldwide census today and each of us had to return to the towns of our ancestors a thousand years back—where would you go? Can you imagine the total disruption of human life that this kind of universal exodus would require? And can you imagine that such a project would never be mentioned in any of the newspapers? There is not a single reference to any such census in any ancient source, apart from Luke. Why then does Luke say there was such a census? The answer may seem obvious to you. He wanted Jesus to be born in Bethlehem, even though he knew he came from Nazareth ... there is a prophecy in the Old Testament book of Micah that a savior would come from Bethlehem. What were these Gospel writer to do with the fact that it was widely known that Jesus came from Nazareth? They had to come up with a narrative that explained how he came from Nazareth, in Galilee, a little one-horse town that no one had ever heard of, but was born in Bethlehem, the home of King David, royal ancestor of the Messiah."

- Bart Ehrman

 

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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link   XXJefferson51    8 years ago

So, why did Herrod have all the baby boys 2 and under killed in Bethleham if the King the Wisemen told him about was in Nazereth.  

 
 

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