re: The move of Jesus in and amongst Islam is truly a thing to behold these days

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Nope, I just use facts

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It is not a fact that the Jews were originally polytheist. That is an ahistorical opinion that has been refuted.

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let the facts determine what is the truth

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Really. And when archaeology continues to support the Bible?

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It’s not hard, but you have to be open-minded and be capable of rational thought.

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Like all of the resources I've given you to correct your misconceptions? I notice you never deal with any of that. You just keep repeating your emotional security blankets

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So some Christians denied Jesus was raised in the flesh

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Who were ultimately exposed as not being Christians

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Christians like Paul in fact, who specifically said Jesus’ body was raised not in flesh but in spirit, as what is sown is perishable and what is raised is imperishable

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Which is of course true and not contradictory. But I totally get how you won't understand that

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some Christians who said...

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Some people say the earth is flat. Does that make them scientists?

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Some Christians claimed...

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Christology has been thoroughly established in numerous ways throughout the early Church. Some people engaging in heresies does not diminish the truth at all. But you knew that, didn't you?

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2 John 7

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You even quote a passage correcting people guilty of heresy but then try to use that passage as proof that the heresy was the actual belief but the correction was the errant view. Do you even know you're doing that? The passage you quote was written and corroborated by eyewitnesses

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The “orthodox” Christians who “won”

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Ok Dan Brown. What a joke. There's an entire discipline of biblical reliability that you're completely unaware of. You are recycling long refuted ideas and you apparently don't even know. Like laughable Jesus Seminar crap with the colored beads.

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Ignatius of Antioch never quoted any of the gospels we have today

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Other than:
In Smyrnaeans 1.1, he quotes Matthew 3:15 almost perfectly
He alludes to 1 Corinthians more than any other book, such as in Smyrnaeans 1.1
His theology of the "flesh" and "blood" of Jesus in the Eucharist (Smyrn 7.1) is deeply similar to the "Bread of Life" discourse in John 6.

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because they hadn’t been written by the time he lived in the first part of the second century.

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You don't even know the basics

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Each one of those lines sought to establish uniformity in the Roman Christian church in the 4th century

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And yet every part of it is derived from the Bible. But you knew that didn't you? The bishops had to prove every line from the Bible

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There were some Christians who believed in two, three, or many gods

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Prove it. Name names

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Many Christians believed Jesus was a created being and distinct in essence

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Who were eventually exposed as heretics because, NEWSFLASH, those ideas are not in the Bible

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Many Christians, perhaps the majority at one point in the second century (Marcionism), believed the evil Yahweh created the world and that Jesus came to rescue us from Yahweh

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And what happened to the followers of Marcion? Were they accepted as orthodox? If their ideas were so biblically grounded, surely they prevailed theologically, right?

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Some said...

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Ok. I've beaten this horse to death

It's astonishing how wrong a person could be about known history. You know some factoids but your conclusions and perception are insanely warped, I'm guessing because of your emotional commitment to Christianity being false. You're citing Dan freaking Brown at this point.

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Yahweh commanded David to conduct a census in 2 Samuel 24

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Do you know why?

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how it was a sin

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If you will check Exodus 30:12, you will see that a census, simpliciter, is permitted. Moreover, 1 Chronicles 21:1 has something to say about this matter.

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innocent Israelites

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Oh really? Tell us more about these people

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Yahweh killed 70,000 innocent Israelites to punish David for doing exactly as he commanded

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Did you even read the first verse of chapter 24?

Do you intentionally misrepresent the Bible? Or is it just a product of ignorance?

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I am however 100% convinced Christians were worshipping Jesus as a mythical character who died and resurrected in the heavens before any legends of a historical Jesus ever started

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And history proves you decidedly wrong on this issue

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I’m positive though that Christians were worshipping a Jesus who was completely celestial

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Prove it. Name names

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We know Mark, which was the first or second gospel, was written as an allegory for deeper truths and wasn’t intended to be taken as literal historical events

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Really. So you're a mind reader now? How interesting. And there are 3 other books that parallel his work also making real claims about Jesus that were corroborated by eyewitnesses for numerous decades after Jesus died and appeared again. Then there are a couple dozen other books that theologically expound on the real person of Jesus which were also corroborated by eyewitnesses.

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So historical Jesus: maybe

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Worn out 2nd quest for the historical Jesus tripe; Crossan, Mack, Borg. All failed commentators on the subject

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Not exactly

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Yes, exactly. Eyewitnesses. In fact, thousands of them

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a hallucination

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A hallucination of a person who matches a real person experienced by countless other people. A shared hallucination. You're dredging the bottom of the barrel at this point. You need to quit. Next you'll be dusting off the 2 body or swoon

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it’s a forgery

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Prove it

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all we have is Paul

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none of the four canonical gospels claim to be written by eyewitnesses

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Name the people who thought the gospels weren't written by eyewitnesses

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Your pastors might have pulled the wool over your eyes

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Ok hypocrite

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Lots of people have been duped

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I asked you how contemporaneous Jews somehow didn't know their own scriptures were actually polytheistic. You have yet to answer this question. You instead recycled the idiotic idea that the "priests" somehow brainwashed everyone into thinking their culture had been monotheistic all along and 2000 years later, people somehow were able to detect that the passages were actually polytheistic, thus toppling several thousand years of Jewish theology and sociology. You were saying about being duped?

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They weren’t writing a Bible

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You think the people who wrote scripture didn't know they were communicating God's word? Wow. Do you know ANYTHING about how the Bible came into being? I'm sure I've cited resources for you on this subject

You sure seem to read people's minds alot.

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there are no contradictions

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Correct. There aren't

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that god PHDs and made it their life’s work wrote books explaining and showing the evidence that it’s a re-write

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Name them. You know perfectly well I'm going to tear that to shreds like everything else you've presented

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He loves making shite up

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You can't be serious. First, Foo gave a perfectly viable interpretation. Second, you are the king of gullibly believing things that are probably written to make money off of rubes such as yourself

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It isn’t in evidence

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I've been asking you for evidence for months. You bring nothing.