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Old 10-26-2012, 10:08 AM   #181
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As soon as I can .. I'll get the book by Thomas Brodie (to my regret a friar), who spoke about the content purely literary of the Gospels, episode after episode. Faced with this reality, there is no Josephus or the Talmud that compare favorably: it is the gospel itself to deny a historical individual known as Jesus of Nazareth.
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The Gospels have not created any historical Jesus and therefore they not even deny it. The Gospels have created the 'mythological' Jesus, starting by the one historical. If you are not able to understand all this, it is useless to seek refuge in unlikely mythicist theories, intended to prove the unprovable: that is to say, the syncretic construction, based on pre-existing mythological models, of the image of a Jew ever existed, the whose existence, however, has not been NEVER denied by the people directly concerned, namely the Jews of the first century and the following centuries, until today ...


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How does this explains, denying what is not true only to gain knowledge after the fact?

I mean even with this knowledge we can all understand the start of the revolution assocviated with the past tense of what we believe. Mythicist theories can only truly be accepted if syncretic construction is proven to be scientifically objective to the status quo. With this I agree with LittleJohn.

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The Bible says Jesus was Fathered by a Ghost--that is Mythology.

It does NOT say Jesus was fathered by a human being.

The Bible is a compilation of Mythological stories about God and his Son Jesus.

What is so difficult to understand that the Greeks and Romans believed in Myth Gods and Sons of Gods??

Perseus the Son of the myth God Jupiter was born of a virgin. See Dialogue with Trypho.
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The Bible says Jesus was Fathered by a Ghost--that is Mythology.

It does NOT say Jesus was fathered by a human being.

The Bible is a compilation of Mythological stories about God and his Son Jesus.

What is so difficult to understand that the Greeks and Romans believed in Myth Gods and Sons of Gods??

Perseus the Son of the myth God Jupiter was born of a virgin. See Dialogue with Trypho.
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"..The Bible says Jesus was Fathered by a Ghost--that is Mythology..."


The mother of Jesus was a Virgin: this was WELL KNOWN to all jerusalemites (ie the inhabitants of Jerusalem), Mary's contemporaries and of her family of origin (a very rich family).

However, NEVER she affirmed to have had the two twins (Jesus and Judas Thomas) by the 'Holy Spirit', hallucinating as stupefying invention of the counterfeiter fathers who founded the catho-christianity, since his fellow citizens of Jerusalem knew exactly how she came to conceive the twins: through a Roman legionnaire, while she practiced the activity of prostitute. (not by chance, into Talmud we found that 'Miriam, the mother of Ben Stada, had sex with MANY MEN!')

It was the same Jesus who, outside Palestine - where no one again knew him - among the many lies that he said, in order to gain charisma among the credulous devotees who were fascinated by his 'magic arts' (illusory arts and 'sideshow' tricks learned in Egypt), also affirmed that the mother, a Virgin, was impregnated by a GOD of the GREEK-ROMAN PANTHEON!... So, NOT by the 'Holy Spirit', but by a God!


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Ἰησοῦν Num 27:18, Deut 18:15-19, Deut 34:9

+ Ἰησοῦν Hag 2:4,

+ Ἰησοῦν Zech 3:1-8

+ Ἰησοῦν Zech 6:11

+ Ἰησοῦν Zech 6:12
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Ἰησοῦν Matt 1:1, 1:21 & 25, Lu 1:31 & 2:21, Ἰησοῦν John 1:17

Its really the old mythology of Ἰησοῦν, that 'successor' appointed by 'Moses' to lead Yahweh's people to the 'Promised Land', and whom would be their גאל 'go'al' price paying kinsman 'redeemer', and responsible 'sin bearer', and the divine whipping boy for the whole House of Israel. (Jhn 5:46+Num 27:19)

Ἰησοῦν keeps popping up again and again as being the name of Yahweh's chosen Deliverer, High Priest and King.
An old Jewish mythology that was finally 'fleshed' out in the distorted 'Jebus Christ' mythology, to be retold to the whole world for generations into perpetuity.

But of course this is not 'THE END' to that story, because it is still being played out, with the fulfillment of Malachi 3:16-18 only coming at the end.
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Ἰησοῦν keeps popping up again and again as being the name of Yahweh's chosen Deliverer, High Priest and King.
An old Jewish mythology that was finally 'fleshed' out in the distorted 'Jebus Christ' mythology, to be retold to the whole world for generations into perpetuity.
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"..Jebus Christ' mythology.."


This is pure dogmatism: irrational and fanatical as dogmatism of fideists! ... It is NOT the truth that you want to search, but only groped to prove, against all logic, that Jesus never existed ... Why? ... At thing all this aims?....


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I simply traced the christian Bible character Ἰησοῦν ὁ Χριστός back to its mythical beginnings, and its progressive development in the Biblical texts that resulted in the queer Ἰησοῦν ὁ Χριστός mythology of the so called 'New Testament'.

Everything about this character was cribbed from The LXX, including the perverted Greek name.
Not a man, not a god, nothing but an old tale swiped from the scrolls of the Jews.

A paper man fabricated on paper, to serve the paper legends of a paper god, ...and principally the greed of men.

I didn't make up this jackass mythical character's name. The HELLenists did that themselves some 2500 years ago, and as the record shows, the rest of the Ἰησοῦν ὁ Χριστός jackass story. Pronounce it as you will.
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I simply traced the christian Bible character Ἰησοῦν ὁ Χριστός back to its mythical beginnings, and its progressive development in the Biblical texts that resulted in the queer Ἰησοῦν ὁ Χριστός mythology of the so called 'New Testament'.

Everything about this character was cribbed from The LXX, including the perverted Greek name.
Not a man, not a god, nothing but an old tale swiped from the scrolls of the Jews.
A paper man fabricated on paper, to serve the paper legends of a paper god, and principally the greed of men.
Greedy fruitcakes, eh.

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Actually I'm just being nice. I do have somewhat stronger terms to describe these whore-mongering, murdering, lying, thieves.
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The Gospels have not created any historical Jesus and therefore they not even deny it. The Gospels have created the 'mythological' Jesus, starting by the one historical. If you are not able to understand all this, it is useless to seek refuge in unlikely mythicist theories, intended to prove the unprovable: that is to say, the syncretic construction, based on pre-existing mythological models, of the image of a Jew ever existed, the whose existence, however, has not been NEVER denied by the people directly concerned, namely the Jews of the first century and the following centuries, until today ...


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You seem not to underderstand that there are two fundamental arguments.

1. The Gospels have created the 'mythological' Jesus started by the historical one.

2. The Gospels created the 'mythological' Jesus without an historical Jesus.

Now, if you attempt to defend Argument 1 you must present the evidence or credible sources.
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What would be for you 'the evidence or credible sources'? ... An ancient document which accounts, word after word, as the events took place 20 centuries ago? ... Maybe even certified by a notary of the time?.......

Documents of this kind are certainly existed, at least until the middle of the fourth century (see Celsus, Porphyry, Hièrocles, etc..), then those who had an interest in keeping hidden the historical truth, destroyed or however did disappear these documents 'embarrassing', absolutely incompatible with the lies of the clergy who founded the catho-christianity, given the hallucinating difference between the historical Jesus and the Jesus of 'faith'.

Today of such a truth remain only 'crumbs': data scattered here and there in the GLOBAL literature, ie inclusive of ALL the sources, whether Christian or not, which may provide useful data, which are 'diluted' in very large number of texts .

It takes years and years of research and studies in order to retrieve this data from the sources that contain them, the which must first be identified: something that is not easy at all, since almost always clues that lead to them are 'encrypted', in the sense that they do not seem relate whit the character Jesus of Nazareth, but toward other characters. (if such evidences had been 'in clear', the sources addressed by them, NEVER would came down to us!)

At this point everyone can realize that the inability or unwillingness to spend the time searching for such clues (I same conduct my researches for over 16 years now), may push people more 'frustrated' to draw absurd theories, such as the one mythicist, precisely ', in the vain hope of explaining what it is absolutely impossible to explain with such theories, if not falling out into ridiculous! (*)

The following is a list of sources that testify to the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth.

1. pagan literature (Tacitus, Suetonius, Celsus, Porphyry, Hièrocles, Porphyry, Julian the Apostate, Lucian of Samosata, etc.);

2. Jewish literature;

3. rabbinic literature (Talmud and Toledoth Yeschu);

4. Gnostic literature (over 70 Gnostic sects with the center the figure of Jesus of Nazareth and all antagonistic to Catholicism);

5. Koranic literature;

6. Arabic literature in general;

7. Manichaean literature;

8. Mandaean literature.

All of these sources should be 'thrown to the winds' to allow you to continue to support the absurd mythicist theory?...

As a result, the testimony about Jesus and his mother Mary found in the Talmud and in Toledoth Yeschu, the Jews of the Diaspora suffered ghastly persecution on the part of satanic priests of the 'holy' Catholic inquisition.

Their books, INCLUDING THE SAME BIBLES, were systematically destroyed THROUGH pyres, on which often together the books were also burned their owners. Nevertheless, the rabbis regularly rebuilt what satanic catholics of the time did destroy, bringing in the new books all that was present in the texts destroyed, including news (embarrassing for the forger clergy) about Jesus and his mother!

If the jewish Jesus, who lived in Palestine 20 centuries ago, had never existed, then the rabbis would NEVER reported the news concerning Jesus in their SACRED texts (such as the Talmud, for example) and would had been the first to belie the catho-christian counterfeiters, if Jesus had been really a character of pure invention!...

At this point, I think, only a fool could argue that in the first century of our era it was possible to build a cult around a Jew ever existed, when even the most stupid of the Jews of the time would have been able to refute them! ... Not Littlejohn affirm it 'ad-hoc', because it is in the LOGIC of things!

If the counterfeiters of 19 centuries ago (II century of our era) wanted to build their worship around a character ever esisitito, they would go looking for him in the Far East, so that no one would be able to belie them easily and miserably.

Remember, once again, that is one thing to argue that the catho-christian worship was built by cynic counterfeiters, who sank with 'eagerly' the hands in pagan mythologies of the time (an aspect with which I totally agree), another thing, instead, is to argue that Jesus never existed and that the character that represents it was syncretically built starting by pre-existing mythological models.

To prove that the catho-christian cult and its 'sacred' literature are a shocking historical false, there is no need to deny to the bitter end the historicity of Jesus: a thing absurd and meaningless!... Who blindly pursues such a path, it must necessarily have a purpose ...


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(*) - today more than 90% of the new works of a religious nature, concerning the figure of Jesus of Nazareth, are written by authors who do not put at all in doubt the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth. These authors constitute the official erudition, the which is totally indifferent to the theory miticista, given its extreme improbability.


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Let us see how familiar you are with, and what it is that you believe about the content of the Bible.

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ταῦτα τὰ ὀνόματα τῶν ἀνδρῶν οὓς ἀπέστειλεν Μωυσῆς κατασκέψασθαι τὴν γῆν καὶ ἐπωνόμασεν Μωυσῆς τὸν Αυση υἱὸν Ναυη Ἰησοῦν
Pray tell Littlejohn, (or anyone else) who is this Ἰησοῦν ?

Do you believe that the above statement is a solid historical fact, and this was how the name Ἰησοῦν really originated?

Or is it simply a highly imaginative STORY that was once written in an ancient Jewish sectarian 'just so' improvised 'national history' religious propaganda document?

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προφήτην ἀναστήσω αὐτοῖς ἐκ τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτῶν ὥσπερ σὲ καὶ δώσω τὸ ῥῆμά μου ἐν τῷ στόματι αὐτοῦ καὶ λαλήσει αὐτοῖς καθότι ἂν ἐντείλωμαι αὐτῷ
καὶ ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὃς ἐὰν μὴ ἀκούσῃ ὅσα ἐὰν λαλήσῃ ὁ προφήτης ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματί μου ἐγὼ ἐκδικήσω ἐξ αὐτοῦ
Do you believe that the above Biblical statement is a solid historical fact, that in actual history, the invisable Elohim of the Jews ever actually spoke these words to anyone ?
That a historical Moses ever actually said and did all of those things the Bible states he both said and did ?

Or are they rather not simply writers compositions in an imaginative religious STORY to be found in an ancient Jewish sectararian 'just so' improvised 'national history' religious propaganda document?

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Τοῦ δὲ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἡ γέννησις οὕτως ἦν Μνηστευθείσης γὰρ τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ Μαρίας τῷ Ἰωσὴφ, πρὶν ἢ συνελθεῖν αὐτοὺς, εὑρέθη ἐν γαστρὶ ἔχουσα ἐκ Πνεύματος ἁγίου
Ἰωσὴφ δὲ ὁ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆς δίκαιος ὢν, καὶ μὴ θέλων αὐτὴν παραδειγματίσαι, ἐβουλήθη λάθρα ἀπολῦσαι αὐτήν
ταῦτα δὲ αὐτοῦ ἐνθυμηθέντος, ἰδοὺ ἄγγελος Κυρίου κατ᾽ ὄναρ ἐφάνη αὐτῷ, λέγων, Ἰωσὴφ υἱὸς Δαβὶδ, μὴ φοβηθῇς παραλαβεῖν Μαριὰμ τὴν γυναῖκά σου τὸ γὰρ ἐν αὐτῇ γεννηθὲν, ἐκ Πνεύματός ἐστιν ἁγίου
τέξεται δὲ υἱὸν, καὶ καλέσεις τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἰησοῦν αὐτὸς γὰρ σώσει τὸν λαὸν αὑτοῦ ἀπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν αὐτῶν
Τοῦτο δὲ ὅλον γέγονεν ἵνα πληρωθῇ τὸ ῥηθὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ Κυρίου, διὰ τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος,
Ἰδοὺ ἡ παρθένος ἐν γαστρὶ ἕξει, καὶ τέξεται υἱὸν, καὶ καλέσουσιν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἐμμανουὴλ, ὅ ἐστιν μεθερμηνευόμενον, μεθ᾽ ἡμῶν ὁ Θεός
Do you believe that the above Biblical statements are reports of solid historical facts, that these things ever literally and actually took place within any historical setting ?

Or are they rather not simply writers compositions in an highly imaginative STORY found within an ancient Jewish sectarian 'just so' religious propaganda document ?


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Need to add, I did not quote from the Greek just to show off. I did it for accuracy of quotation, and to avoid that inevitable fucking around with that particular Biblical name, Ἰησοῦν, that conventionally occurs within all so called christian 'translations' and 'Versions'.

There flat out never was any character or person known by the name 'Jesus' or 'Jesus Christ' in the 1st century, or until both the spelling and pronunciation became corrupted into Angelo Anglish English.
"You shall call his name JESUS" is one of the biggest religious lies that has ever been foisted off unto humanity.

Screw christian 'convention', let's get down to the FACTS. And stick with them.




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