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Old 01-27-2006, 07:34 AM   #1
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It should be pointed out the Mythicist position represents a clear minority of scholars. This does not make it wrong, of course, but it does make it develop very slowly. Or maybe it has nowhere to go.

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Every scholar worth his salt would know that the Mythicist position is not for scholars or myth would not be beyond reason and this would suggest that scholars have nowhere to go because myth is beyond reason.
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I still think the whole Paul thing is totally weird. He was just a guy! Even Christians agree he was just a guy! He doesn't even claim to be related to God in any way! Why do they listen to him any more than any other crackpot with a hallucination? Maybe cuz it fit in with their beliefs? And didn't he really say a lot of things that basically established the foundations of what Christianity as a practicing religion would look like? What would Christianity look like without Paulism?
Well Joseph was also just a guy until he was reborn and was called Jesus during the cocoon stage wherein he was Nazorean by nature and later Christ in the image of a butterfy that could fly in nature.
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Old 01-27-2006, 08:20 AM   #3
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I just thought of something else that's a derail. I believe that the Catholics say that there is a line of succession from the original apostles to the Pope. Where do they get this? Has this always been their position, and what is their justification for it?
It is just true, that's all. It runs from Jesus to Paul in the same Peter whereon Jesus promised to built his church.
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The idea that the Jesus myth has so much in common with other heroic/religious myths of the era and place, how much do scholars think the Jesus story was derived from those stories? How much truth is there to the statements I have seen made about other Gods who had a virgin birth with God as father, rose from the dead after 3 days, etc.?
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Sorry but I do not think that TomboyMom wants to learn something here. But I'll stop.
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Old 01-27-2006, 08:55 AM   #6
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It is just true, that's all. It runs from Jesus to Paul in the same Peter whereon Jesus promised to built his church.
Who was Peter? Remember, I'm not Christian, so I don't know this stuff.
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Who was Peter? Remember, I'm not Christian, so I don't know this stuff.
But I am not a Christian either. You can find my answer to your question in "Elsewhere."
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