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If somebody had set out to start a new religion by making it up out of whole cloth, they would have followed the more high-flown and rhetorical models of the classical authors, to give the account more credence.

It would indeed be a GREAT AUTHOR to have created the Gospel life of Jesus as a fiction, and a MIRACLE that it would turn into such a "best-seller".

It is the deniers who are not dealing scientifically, because they are not interested in the truth, but rather to torment the believers. The deniers here are very similar to the holocaust-deniers, who are denying something much closer to our time when survivors are still around.

100 posted on 01/02/2006 6:44:39 PM PST by kenavi ("Remember, your fathers sacrificed themselves without need of a messianic complex." Ariel Sharon)

It would indeed be a GREAT AUTHOR to have created the Gospel life of Jesus as a fiction, and a MIRACLE that it would turn into such a "best-seller".

He would have had to have worked in cross-references throughout the entire Old Testament and make them fit without any slip-ups, as well.

105 posted on 01/02/2006 6:59:27 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (The search for someone to blame is always successful. - Robert Half)