Saturday, November 20, 2010

thought of the day.453

Did a teacher named Jesus walk the streets of Jerusalem 2,000 years ago? Almost certainly. There were countless roaming teachers/healers/religious leaders and the odds are that at least a few of these were named Jesus.

But did the Jesus revealed in the bible exist? Certainly not. The Jesus of the bible who was born of a virgin, worked miracles, threatened unbelievers with lakes of fire, rose from the dead and floated into the sky toward a throne waiting in some heavenly realm beyond the last planet on the left was a mythological character created almost entirely from stories found throughout the Old Testament.

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