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Originally Posted by Easyrider
Yeah, that's what a lot of stiff-necked infidels like you thought at one time, and they later came to their senses.
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Clearly, they
weren't like me. I'm not a gullible dope.
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Originally Posted by Easyrider
How stupid are you going to feel when you belly-up and find out you just wound up in the Pit?
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I won't feel stupid at all, because there is no pit, and there are no feelings after death.
Thank you for confirming your pathetic inability to cease using circular reasoning.
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Originally Posted by Easyrider
As for fiction, once again I challenge you to show me one significant person, place, or event in the Gospels that is ficticious.
All I want is ONE (1) - just your best ONE.
Put up or shut up, turkey.
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How about something that's ficticious
and absurd
as shown by the Gospels themselves? How about something that exposes the Gospels for what they are: embellished, tweaked, hacked stories designed not to represent truth but to fake events for political pull?
Mark and Luke have Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a colt:
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Mark 11:7
And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon him.
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Luke 19:35
And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon.
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John has Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey (which 4forums will censor):
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John 12:14
And Jesus, when he had found a young XXX, sat thereon.
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But Matthew -- poor, dumb Matthew -- has Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a colt and a donkey, at the same time.
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Matthew 21:5-7
Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an XXX, and a colt the foal of an XXX. And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them And brought the XXX, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon.
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For most people, I'm sure that'd take practice. But Jesus being God and all...
No more than one of these descriptions can be true. What makes the most sense is that, at the very least, Matthew -- poor, dumb Matthew -- misread Zechariah and, in his zeal to make Jesus the fulfillment of prophecy, concocted this ridiculous story.
And this shows what the Gospels are: stories, perhaps with nuggets of truth, that have been either written originally or rewritten to allege that Jesus was the Messiah.