God by about 2million to 10.
Also, has anybody noticed how the bible sounds incredibly like propaganda, slamming Satan as being the evil one and promoting God, yet acknowledging all the horrible shit God does and saying that it was "for good".
Yes, the bible was one of the first forms of propaganda. Example, it was during the time of Hezekiah when the Assyrians invaded Israel. They were the toughest military force in the region, and had just conquered Aram. They captured and razed the major settlement in southern Israel and then moved on the capital.
Hezekiah had no option but to buy them off. He paid them not to attack, and they withdrew. Now this event was not in his best interest to be made public, as it made him appear weak. So he had his scribes write up some bullshit about the 185,000 Assyrians warriors perishing mysteriously during the night - because he had prayed to god for them to be smitten.
But, the Assyrians told of a different story. The Assyrian frescos depict Hezekiah giving them gold and them wandering off with piles of loot and women. They tell of victory and mention nothing about 185,000 soldiers perishing in the night, because it never happened.
heheheh nice one.
and yes it was God who did most of it. But did you see it had a cause effect thing about it too?
ANd black heart like i said before. If her church is like this too they need to seriously try to get themselves on the right track too. Because all they are doing in nurturing destructive behaviour.
Do you know who wrote the bible? When it was written? Who wrote the Pentateuch? When were the gospels written? By whom? Why are some gospels copied word for word and used in other gospels? And when were they converted to Latan? When were they converted from Latan to english? By whom?
Surprisingly not many Christians want to know the answers of these questions. Instead they hold on to the ridiculous belief that god somehow inspired people that had never even met Jesus to write all about his life and his actions.
Have you heard about the Lord Raglan Hero scale? Basically it's a way of measuring a specific mythical hero against the archetypical mythical hero. There are 22 points that you can score on. Actually historical figures do not score over 6, scoring over 6 means the individual is very likely to be mythical. Either they never existed or never existed in the manner they are commonly depicted. Here are the points:
1. The hero's mother is a royal virgin
2. His father is a king
3. His father is also a near relative of the mother
4. The circumstances of his conception are unusual
5. He is reputed to be the son of a god or demon
6. At birth an attempt is made, usually by his father or maternal grandfather, to kill . him (persecution)
7. He is exiled or goes on a long journey
8. He is reared by foster-parents
9. We are told nothing of his childhood, or his childhood remains mysterious
10. On reaching manhood he returns or goes to his future kingdom
11. He does good deeds for the community (killing a beast, monster, or winning a war)
12. He marries a princess, often the daughter of his enemy or predecessor
13. He becomes king
14. For a time he reigns peacefully
15. He creates or prescribes laws
16. He later loses favor with the gods and or his people*(persecution)
17. He is exiled from from the throne and the city or sent on a journey
18. He meets with a mysterious death or a disappearance
19. This often happens at the top of a hill or summit
20. His children, if any, do not succeed him
21. His body is not buried, or may be mysteriously hidden
22. He has one or more holy tombs or graves
Here are some scores for ancient heroes:
Oedipus - 21
Theseus - 20
Romulus - 18
Hercules - 17
Perseus - 18
Jason - 15
Bellerophon - 16
Pelops - 13
Asklepios - 12
Dionysus - 19
Apollo - 11
Zeus - 15
How does Jesus score?
1. His mother is the Virgin Mary, supposedly descended from King David (0.5)
2. His father is supposedly descended from King David (0.5)
3. No hint of that (0)
4. Can anyone say Virgin Birth? (1)
5. He is the Son of God, God himself, or 1/3 of God (1)
6. King Herod killing those baby boys (1)
7. His parents flee with him to Egypt (1)
8. He is raised by his original parents (0)
9. Only one incident: his precocity in the Temple, though some noncanonical gospels have other precocity stories (1)
10. He goes to Galilee[Synoptics]/Jerusalem[John] after spending time in the wilderness (1)
11. He successfully resists the Devil's temptations, including rule of "all the kingdoms of the world" (1)
12. He remains single, though the Gospel of Philip features a relationship between him and Mary Magdalene (0)
13. He becomes a religious prophet (1)
14. Most of his Galilee/Jerusalem time is relatively uneventful (1)
15. He delivers lots of teachings, many of which can be interpreted as laws (1)
16. When he gets in trouble with the authorities, his followers desert him (1)
17. He is put on trial for being some kind of subversive (1)
18. He dies on that cross, even though he could have jumped off of it, as his history of miracle-working might suggest (1)
19. Yes (1)
20. He has no known children (1)
21. He rises from the dead, leaves his tomb, and eventually rises up into heaven (1)
22. The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem (1)
Jesus Christ's Lord Raglan score is 18, well within the mythical range.
http://danielle-movie.com/forums/archive/index.php?t-118.htmlWord of Jesus was spread via oral tradition until someone decided to document it. Problem there is that 350 years of oral tradition tends to distort things a bit... Jesus probably existed, but as for being the avatar of a non existent human-like god effigy? no. i don't think so buddy.
