stephan huller

Oh God no. We don't need Pete to come back here. He was like a parody of the worst characters at these forums. He was dreadfully predictable, never listened to anything anyone had to say. He was like a Franken-poster. I recommend we bury this thread before mountainman rises from the dead like a zombie from a bad horror film.

Roger Pearse

My concern was whether something had happened to him.

A lot of the people who post online have little offline social contact. I hate to think of any of us dying alone and unloved, yet I suspect that this is and will be the case for many of us.

I know that cranks can be annoying, to put it mildly; but isolation tends to make people into cranks, and so the annoyance is a symptom of an underlying unhappiness.

It is a lonely world, a fact that youth may disguise but which time reveals. We all grow old and tired and ill at a frightening speed, once we pass 25. Friends fall away and vanish, and are not replaced. Others grow old and weary, and seem like shadows of those we once knew. Beloved relatives die, and the world looks much emptier when they are gone.

We can't really take on the concerns of people unknown to us a continent away, of course.

But I think all of us would hope that, when we make our final posts on the web, someone will notice that we have gone. Whether we can expect this, however, I doubt.

All the best,

Roger Pearse

aa5874

Mountainman is a modern hero. His contribution is by far the most provocative of all contributors.

Mountainman challenged the stutus quo. Mountainman questioned the History of the Church as stated by Eusebius.

Mountainman argued that the Jesus story and cult did not originate in the 1st century as claimed by the Church but sometime in the 4th century.

Thanks to mountainman, it is now beyond any reasonable doubt that the Jesus story and cult did NOT originate in the 1st century.

The History of the Church as stated by Eusebius is now permanently Bogus.

The History of the Church as stated by Eusebius is utterly False.

All the recovered Texts dated to the 1st century do NOT at all in any form or fashion show a Jesus story or cult in the 1st century and before c 70 CE.

No recovered manuscript has been dated to the 1st century with any characters called Jesus, the Messianic ruler, the Savior, or Mary and Joseph as parents of Jesus, or 12 apostles as disciples of Jesus or Paul, a Jew, who went "all over" the Roman Empire preaching the Good News that Jesus was resurrected.

No recovered manuscripts have been dated to the 1st century which claim that there was a Miracle worker and prophet called Jesus the Messianic ruler and Savior of all mankind who also abolished the Laws of the Jews.

Officially, based on the recovered data, we can say that the History of the Church as stated by Eusebius is utterly Bogus.

Thanks to Mountainman.

No-one, Nobody, No person, Scholar or not, can ever argue again or show, based on the ACTUAL RECOVERED EVIDENCE, that the Jesus story and cult originated in the 1st century before c 70 CE.

Thanks to mountainman--the History of the Church as stated by Eusebius has been destroyed.

Mountainman has won.

No Robots

That's a nice tribute, aa5874. Now, don't you go off somewhere without telling somebody.

stephan huller

oh god. the aa, mountainman, avi trifecta

aa5874

Are you implying that your future is secure?? Tell us what people will say about you if we never hear from you again??

No Robots

Man, I'm just saying I wouldn't want you to just disappear. I happen to like your contributions. Don't be so jumpy. Sheesh.

There are all kinds of people who have posted here who have just disappeared. I don't like it.

aa5874

This is exactly what I predicted. You cannot ever argue using the actual recovered evidence that the Jesus story and cult originated in the 1st century before c 70 CE.

You can say whatever you like about mountainman but the DAMAGE has been done.

It has been SECURELY EXPOSED that there is no credible or recovered evidence for the Jesus story and cult in the 1st century before c 70 CE.

Mountainman has WON.

Please examine the List of Registered New Testament manuscripts. There is NOTHING--ZERO--NIL from the 1st century and before c 70 CE.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...stament_papyri

The History of the Church as stated by Eusebius is historically BOGUS.

Mountainman has WON

stephan huller

Yes I hear them rewriting the history books now.

TedM

Would you seriously expect there to be any such surviving manuscripts if the orthodox story is true, aa? If so, please explain why.