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To: kosta50; P-Marlowe; Forest Keeper; D-fendr; MarkBsnr; xzins

“Mythological, given that Babylonias have an identical account for all practical purposes.”

Well then I guess we can say that the resurrection of Jesus was myth since long before the Gospels the Greeks had a resurrection story of the dying and rising of the god, Dionysus. The idea of a messiah, a divinely appointed king who restores the world to perfection is typical of Egyptian and Babylonian royal myths dating back to the Bronze Age so we can relagate the returning victorious Christ to the myth pile.

Let’s see, what’s left?


2,635 posted on 08/17/2007 6:56:39 PM PDT by blue-duncan
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To: blue-duncan; kosta50; P-Marlowe; Forest Keeper; D-fendr; MarkBsnr; xzins
...so we can relagate the returning victorious Christ to the myth pile. Let’s see, what’s left?


2,638 posted on 08/17/2007 7:46:13 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: blue-duncan; kosta50; P-Marlowe; Forest Keeper; D-fendr; MarkBsnr; xzins
Let’s see, what’s left?

The only thing left when you throw out sections of Scripture "because they are only mythology" is a church that claims it has all the power to determine what is orthodoxy and who and how individuals are saved.

2,671 posted on 08/18/2007 7:54:29 AM PDT by wmfights (LUKE 9:49-50 , MARK 9:38-41)
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