Re: God is a metaphor?

Posted by sqeak on October 29, 2000 at 10:20:17:

In Reply to: God is a metaphor? posted by bill on October 28, 2000 at 19:07:23:

: Among their pronouncements:
: -There was no resurrection
: -There was no virgin birth
: -The 3 wise men and star etc is a fable designed to fulfill prophesies of the Talmud.
: -Jesus was probably born in Nazareth
: -Jesus had no interest in forming a church
: -Most of the Gospels were heavily edited by later authors to conform to
: what the Church needed in order to control people's lives (8s and 1s?)
: -Most of the miracles were added to compete with very similar
: 'pagan' (Greek) hero feats.

All of these pronouncements are conclusions that have already been arrived at by many other authors searching for the historical Jesus. I found the "Fifth Gospel" interesting reading - but, of course, we'll never really know.

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