Originally Posted by mountainman

If Constantine had not embraced this plain and simple superstition in the 4th century we might have made it to Alpha Centauri by now. The emergence theories related to "cookie cutter christs" have been almost directly in response to the failure to establish any historical trace of an historical "Jesus Christ" as asserted by Greek texts of the religious authorities ever since the 4th century.

As technology and science have progressed and we begin to perceive ancient history a little more clearly than those like Graves a century ago, the Great Silence of the archaeological evidence and the suspicious nature of the earliest Greek and Coptic and Syriac and Manichaean manuscripts suggest that the very historical accounts of "Christian Origins to the Fifth Century" are inextricably characterised by fraudulent misrepresentation of history, and by the glorification of the "New and Strange Church of Constantine".

CCC theories are trying to make sense of the transition from the Old Greek Gods to the New Christian God, given that the New Christian God was never historical - that is, given that the new testament is non historical. They are a step in the right direction in my opinion. They have rejected as historical "the Early Christian Jesus". What they have thus far not yet been able to do it to reject as historical "the Early Christian Nation of Christians". Once people feel comfortable in even just simulating as an hypothesis that Christian History may have been invented, they will find themselves staring down the barrel of Constantine's smoking canon, and an intelligent investigation can be made concerning the evidence of the 4th century, commencing c.324 CE with that "Porphyrian" Arius of Alexandria, and the Councils of Antioch and Nicaea, immediately followed by the massive Arian controversy which lasted centuries and generations.

Originally Posted by Sheshbazzar

All of the Abrahamic religions will topple and fall because they are rotten at their roots,
the trunk is naught but a hollow shell, and all the branches thereof are filled with rot and disease.
Her season of living has drawn to its end, She has long cast her evil fruit, and it rots in the ground.
Day by day the leaves are falling, falling, falling.

Soon the wind will bring it down, and men will gather up the broken branches thereof,
and cut up the hollow trunk, and the dead roots, and cast it all into the fire,
and burn it into ashes, leaving neither root nor branch,
and so shall this evil tree pass, and at the last, be forever removed from the sight of men.

Amen

Originally Posted by Sheshbazzar

The entire 'tree' of the Abrahamic religions are rooted in a ridiculous tale of about a talking serpent,
without which the entire old tree will topple over.

It doesn't matter how old, or how big, or how many branches a tree has,
if its roots are dead, and rotten, and weak, that mighty 'tree' is,
in due time, bound to come crashing down.

All of the Abrahamic religions will topple and fall because they are rotten at their roots,
the trunk is naught but a hollow shell, and all the branches thereof are filled with rot and disease.
Her season of living has drawn to its end, She has long cast her evil fruit, and it rots in the ground.
Day by day the leaves are falling, falling, falling.

Soon the wind will bring it down, and men will gather up the broken branches thereof,
and cut up the hollow trunk, and the dead roots, and cast it all into the fire,
and burn it into ashes, leaving neither root nor branch,
and so shall this evil tree pass, and at the last, be forever removed from the sight of men.

Amen

Originally Posted by aa5874

One day people will realize Jesus is really no better than a STONE God.