Comments on: model

By: fenchurch

fenchurch — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:55:48 +0000

@Josh– for some of the authors (Matthew, John,) the gap is even greater than 30 years.

@ticticboom — this isn’t the case if you apply the bad math, that 3 is 1. In that case, J-man is either just as bad as himself/dad. He came not to change one tiddle or jot of the law, remember!

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:53:47 +0000

Plus, Jesus’ biography has a thirty year gap.

By: Timothy (TRiG)

Timothy (TRiG) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:05:25 +0000

Robert G Ingersoll looks like he’s been reading Christopher Hitchens. And presumably he’s also been reading the US’s most famous atheist statesman.

TRiG.

By: Hobbes

Hobbes — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:52:30 +0000

Everlasting punishment. I consider Christianity a neo-Zoroastrian belief. However, the Zoroastrian religion was better in that there was no eternal punishment. After the end time, all souls in hell leave and enter paradise. Christianity should go back to their roots, short of throwing off the mental chains altogether.

By: Robert G Ingersoll

Robert G Ingersoll — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:20:03 +0000

In the Old Testament, they said. God is the judge — but in the New, Christ is the merciful. As a matter of fact, the New Testament is infinitely worse than the Old. In the Old there is no threat of eternal pain. Jehovah had no eternal prison — no everlasting fire. His hatred ended at the grave. His revenge was satisfied when his enemy was dead.
In the New Testament, death is not the end, but the beginning of punishment that has no end. In the New Testament the malice of God is infinite and the hunger of his revenge eternal.

By: Chayanov

Chayanov — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:49:34 +0000

“That not only would have been reported by the Jewish and Roman historians of the day, it would have induced many to write it down.”

Exactly. Some guy is running around doing clearly impossible things, and nobody bothers to document it until decades after his death? No contemporary eyewitness reports, no investigation by the authorities, no mass panics, nothing at all? The Roman government wouldn’t have been able to completely suppress all information about him.

Imagine what it would be like today if some random guy came forth, raised his hands, and suddenly the dead were climbing out of their graves. Yet the Bible would have you believe that when it happened 2000 years ago nobody found this strange or frightening at all. “Who? Lazarus? Just a dead man who came back to life. Nope, nothing news-worthy about that at all.”

By: Toast in the machine

Toast in the machine — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:19:19 +0000

Eusebius; I say BS.

By: prozacville

prozacville — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:19:06 +0000

I blame Eusebius too.

The fucker lost my favourite hairbrush.

I lent it to him last Thursday and then when we met yesterday he didn’t say anything, and then when I texted him last night, he said he’d left it on the tube.

On the tube!

Who brushes their hair on the tube? Have YOU ever seen anyone brushing their hair on the tube. I haven’t.

By: yelinna

yelinna — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:54:39 +0000

Brilliant!!!

By: JohnnieCanuck

JohnnieCanuck — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:36:41 +0000

Clearly, all the big flashy things attributed to Jesus never happened. No earthquake damaged the temple and let loose the dead to return to their families. That not only would have been reported by the Jewish and Roman historians of the day, it would have induced many to write it down. Events create historians. Besides, who could record such a thing without expecting it to be seen as fiction?

We see nothing but probable forgeries as corroboration of a human Jesus from historians who lived when he did. Messianic Jews were a dime a dozen at the time, and gave the Romans cause to suppress (and document) the worst of them.

I Blame Eusebius.