Posted on 03/19/2005 2:57:50 AM PST by Navydog
Despite all of this literature continuously being cranked out and the significance of the issue, in the public at large there is a serious lack of formal and broad education regarding religion and mythology, and most individuals are highly uninformed in this area. Concerning the issue of Christianity, for example, the majority of people are taught in most schools and churches that Jesus Christ was an actual historical figure and that the only controversy regarding him is that some people accept him as the Son of God and the Messiah, while others do not. However, whereas this is the raging debate most evident in this field today, it is not the most important. Shocking as it may seem to the general populace, the most enduring and profound controversy in this subject is whether or not a person named Jesus Christ ever really existed.
(Excerpt) Read more at davidicke.net ...
For someone who "didn't actually exist", isn't it amazing how many testimonies were given from people who worked and lived with Jesus.
These intellectuals have far too much spare time.
This link is even worse!!...If you can believe it can get any worse.
http://www.davidicke.net/religiousfrauds/christianity/piso-hoax.html
...the most enduring and profound controversy in this subject is whether or not a person named Jesus Christ ever really existed.
I am absolutely sure that there is no controversy on this matter in the church of God.
Rather silly, startlingly inaccurate, historically speaking, article if you ask me!
It is a culmination of things. It starts with an attack on Genesis and ends in an attack on Revelation from within the ranks of Christianity itself. Those who have mythologized the story of Christ come from a long line of Theologians and apologists who have accepted a mythological or symbolic attitude towards most, if not all, of the Bible.
First they claim that the creation account is myth. Then they claim that the story of Adam and Eve is myth. Then they claim that the flood is myth. Then they claim that all the miracles in the Bible from the walls of Jericho to the story of Jonah or Daniel are simply myths designed to somehow teach us "spiritual truths."
This mythologizing of the Bible stories is much more rampant among professed believers than I had imagined. If professing Christians are willing to chalk the miracles of the Bible up to myth, then is it any wonder that some within our ranks are now willing to mythologize or symbolize Jesus himself?
To put this article in perspective for you chaps, please note that it was posted on David Icke's website.
He used to be a 3rd rate British sports commentator who had some sort of nervous breakdown when he was sacked in the 1980's. He then discovered the new age movement and started claiming prophetic powers.
Then before the millenium he claimed that he was the messiah and that he had come back to take up where Jesus left off. He is a total fruitcake who claims that people don't believe him, just like they didn't believe Jesus - therefore this is proof of who he is.
If he has now taken to denying that Jesus existed, then this is just the next step in his descent to insanity. He isn't worth the oxygen that is expended in thinking about him!
"It's Great Lent -- I am not surprised demons are on the move."
Thank you for the reminder.
The denial and persecution of Christians is beginning!
David Icke is always worth a laugh. He thinks all political leaders are actually alien lizards. Apparently he saw the Queen Mother on telly once and she flashed her lizard eyes at him.
He regularly sells out arenas around the world peddling this crap. I think he actually believes it too.
Thanks for the G2, Deacon. Kosta's right, though. Great Lent is a time when demons are particularly active.
"Kosta's right, though. Great Lent is a time when demons are particularly active."
Indeed - the temptation in the desert is more present at this time of the liturgical year than at any other. And the devil's temptations are still the same as those he tried 2,000 years ago.
I'll have whatever he's drinking...
He doesn't know Jesus, and when the time comes, Jesus will not know him.
What do Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Madeline Murray O'Hair all have in common? They ALL now know there is a God.
For those who deny that Christ actually existed all they need to do is search historical records,Josephus wrote about Him,Pilate wrote about Him,and many others who were his contemporaries wrote about Him.
I have no doubt He existed or that He still exists within His followers.
As for someone being a loon,the world is full of them,just look at the atheists.
I bothered to check some facts about Buddha, just to see how far off the scale this is, and the only thing this clown Davide Icke got right is the name of his mother.
Right. According to what I found some people in the know saying on the internet on Friday, the controversy that is most likely to be found going on in your Armstrong cult spin-off church would be an argument over who gets to rule directly under your two-person God-head, to wit:
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 : "... and it's the same fellow who thinks he's the rightful continuation of Herbert W.Armstrong ... the council Elders of United Church of God think they are." ~ K.M.
"The last time my wife attended United Church of God... she was told by the "pastor" in a sermon that there was God...Jesus Christ...then the council of elders on the pyramid scale, just like Herbert W.Armstrong was under Christ on HIS pyramid scale. She went to the "pastor" after the sermon and told him that she didn't agree with that b.s. and that she didn't need a "council of elders" between her and Christ ... He was speechless. She never went back after that." ~ S.K.
Is that kooky, or what?
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