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Forum: Religion and Philosophy 23rd May 2020, 01:20 PM
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Posted By Craig B
Evidently the problem is one of simple ignorance....

Evidently the problem is one of simple ignorance. Here is wiki on the expression "son of God"
The term "son of God" is used in the Hebrew Bible as another way of referring to humans with special...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 22nd May 2020, 11:34 PM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
I don't think you understand the text you quote....

I don't think you understand the text you quote. Jesus was a person who was reborn as a spirit. So says Paul. "51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 22nd May 2020, 11:21 PM
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Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
You are not being honest, I think. We are not...

You are not being honest, I think.
We are not talking about a Jesus who was worshipped as a god at the time of Pilate. The deification came later, and you most know that. So it is pointless to...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 22nd May 2020, 07:49 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
Very true, but Hubbard's orifice exists, and...

Very true, but Hubbard's orifice exists, and therefore so does Hubbard. If Christianity was pulled out of the orifices of Jesus or Paul, and it exists, then probably these persons existed as well....
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 22nd May 2020, 05:09 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
That shouldn't seem odd. The question of whether...

That shouldn't seem odd. The question of whether Jesus was a human being who "really walked the earth" is not a religious one, but is purely an issue of historical evidence. You say the evidence is...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 19th April 2020, 07:53 PM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
I suppose if Paul never existed, writings...

I suppose if Paul never existed, writings attributed to him must be forgeries, but if the best scholars say this, who are these scholars and in which of their writings will I find their opinions to...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 23rd March 2020, 03:23 AM
Replies: 449
Views: 71,113
Posted By Craig B
Leviticus 13 has instructions regarding isolation...

Leviticus 13 has instructions regarding isolation in the case of infectious diseases.

"45 “Now the leper on whom the sore is, his clothes shall be torn and his head bare; and he shall cover his...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 17th March 2020, 08:19 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 2,120
Posted By Craig B
forging biblical era artefacts is and has long...

forging biblical era artefacts is and has long been a major industry https://www.timesofisrael.com/acquitted-of-forging-artifacts-dealer-is-fined-for-trading/
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 9th December 2019, 12:32 PM
Replies: 1,461
Views: 81,399
Posted By Craig B
I wasn't aware of that, and I must say that Simon...

I wasn't aware of that, and I must say that Simon Wiesenthal was ill advised to let the organisation use the advantage of his name while he had no control over what it said or did, although it is to...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 9th December 2019, 05:10 AM
Replies: 1,461
Views: 81,399
Posted By Craig B
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has some strange...

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has some strange ideas about what constitutes extreme antisemitism. From a recent article

"It was not the first time Corbyn has found himself on the annual list, which...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 9th December 2019, 02:08 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 4,328
Posted By Craig B
Even more depressing is the same author's Dawn of...

Even more depressing is the same author's Dawn of All (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11626). More depressing because it is a Utopia, relating events that the author wishes to happen. The resulting...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 9th December 2019, 01:35 AM
Replies: 1,461
Views: 81,399
Posted By Craig B
Since 1707 Scotlanders have been obliged to do...

Since 1707 Scotlanders have been obliged to do whatever the Englander electorate thinks best. Every single electoral area in Scotland voted against Brexit. So what? It was a UK referendum and the UK...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 12th October 2019, 11:28 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
[QUOTE=dejudge;12853499]You don't make any sense....

[QUOTE=dejudge;12853499]You don't make any sense. Your statement is void of logic.

The credibility of the supposed Pauline writings must matter in the discussion about the existence/non-existence...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 6th October 2019, 10:53 PM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
At least, if he lived he had a date and...

At least, if he lived he had a date and circumstance of death. If he never lived, he had no date and no cause of death, or his imagined lifetime could have been in any period at all. As it is, his...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 6th October 2019, 10:15 PM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
This isn't a study of religious origins; it is a...

This isn't a study of religious origins; it is a delusional conspiracy theory. Not only is evrrything a lie, but people don't even believe the lies, forgeries and corruption from which their religion...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 6th October 2019, 04:34 PM
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Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
No doubt, but Pliny was commissioned to write a...

No doubt, but Pliny was commissioned to write a report about Christians specifically and he described what he learned through his investigation. Jesus was now a god. What happened hundreds of years...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 6th October 2019, 12:08 PM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
I have also posted that people can have brothers...

I have also posted that people can have brothers called James, be considered insane by their mothers, and be executed. These gthings are in the BIble and are not impossible. So we have sources...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 6th October 2019, 11:46 AM
Replies: 479
Views: 31,671
Posted By Craig B
I am certain you have read the book and that it...

I am certain you have read the book and that it forms the foundation of your entire ideology. I was asking if you had read my links, since you asked for them. But if you don't want to read rthem,...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 6th October 2019, 11:39 AM
Replies: 479
Views: 31,671
Posted By Craig B
This is from my second link.Noam Chomsky has...

This is from my second link.Noam Chomsky has publicly declared his skepticism that Joan Peters even wrote the book, speculating that it might have been authored by some intelligence agency. That may...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 6th October 2019, 11:21 AM
Replies: 479
Views: 31,671
Posted By Craig B
Here's Chomsky saying it here...

Here's Chomsky saying it here (https://chomsky.info/power01/)a guy named Norman Finkelstein, started reading through the book. He was interested in the history of Zionism, ... and he started checking...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 6th October 2019, 11:03 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
No, that's what I say. Here is what Darat says,...

No, that's what I say. Here is what Darat says, with my emphasis and comments where necessary
Jesus is an impossible person, not "a possible person with some impossible things said about him in...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 6th October 2019, 10:03 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
Darat says it Of course we have no such...

Darat says it Of course we have no such information among the tiny amount of stuff left to us from ancient times. The evidence is from many sources, but they have all been canonised into Christian...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 6th October 2019, 09:07 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
You're not grasping this, evidently. A crucified...

You're not grasping this, evidently. A crucified Jesus is not impossible, so maybe he's authentic. Maybe. A virgin born Jesus is impossible, so he's not authentic even if Mark says he is, which in...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 6th October 2019, 08:01 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
That's not what I was saying. I stated that...

That's not what I was saying. I stated that things that are impossible are not true, which is the converse of the silliness you ascribe to me.
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 6th October 2019, 06:50 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
I reject the virgin birth story because it is...

I reject the virgin birth story because it is impossible. Even if it was mentioned by Mark I would reject it. However it is one of the elaborations of the Jesus story that was inserted subsequently...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 6th October 2019, 05:56 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
Let me be clear. You believe that Paul's visits...

Let me be clear. You believe that Paul's visits to Jerusalem happened following the destruction of 70 CE, and that it was at that time that Paul met James and Peter, or do you believe that he never...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 6th October 2019, 05:12 AM
Replies: 479
Views: 31,671
Posted By Craig B
Cosmic Yak, would be enormously helpful if you...

Cosmic Yak, would be enormously helpful if you could provide a link to the source of your quotes.
craig B provides links.
Cosmic Yak blah blah blah.

That's not very nice. Your book is dismissed...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 6th October 2019, 04:14 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
So in your view Acts is fictional on this point....

So in your view Acts is fictional on this point. And Paul's epistles never refer to a Temple in Jerusalem, but are referring figuratively to the Christian Church. So when do you believe that the...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 6th October 2019, 03:57 AM
Replies: 3,447
Views: 261,387
Posted By Craig B
Oh yes it is. As in the Merry Monarch etc. "He...

Oh yes it is. As in the Merry Monarch etc. "He was the playboy monarch, naughty but nice, the hero of all who prized urbanity, tolerance, good humour, and the pursuit of pleasure above the more...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 6th October 2019, 03:39 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
The earliest sources Paul and Mark know nothing...

The earliest sources Paul and Mark know nothing about this. The fourth evangelist John, whose Jesus is by now nearly a god and who makes him a creator from the beginning, twice calls Jesus son of...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 6th October 2019, 03:14 AM
Replies: 479
Views: 31,671
Posted By Craig B
Have a look at these links then. ...

Have a look at these links then.
https://chomsky.info/power01/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Time_Immemorial

https://mondoweiss.net/2015/01/legacy-peters-immemorial/
...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 6th October 2019, 03:10 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
If he was simply a prophet he must have existed....

If he was simply a prophet he must have existed. If he was also a healer that doesn't mean that he had super powers, but it does mean he was believed to have existed by people who wrote about his...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 6th October 2019, 01:31 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
I don't see that at all. If there was a person...

I don't see that at all. If there was a person named Jesus who was baptised by John, went preaching, performed healing acts, such as are non miraculous and commonplace among charismatic preachers. In...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 6th October 2019, 01:00 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
I thought it was meant to illustrate an opinion,...

I thought it was meant to illustrate an opinion, but if it was to provide a link omitted by dejudge, thank you for it.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th October 2019, 08:59 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,117
Posted By Craig B
Frozen RNA soup?

Frozen RNA soup?
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 5th October 2019, 08:14 PM
Replies: 3,447
Views: 261,387
Posted By Craig B
In that case it would be the UR. Tourists visit...

In that case it would be the UR. Tourists visit Versailles even if there are no monarchs there, so I think the attractions of monarchs with their heads still attached, as objects for tourists, are...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th October 2019, 07:55 PM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
If reason fails, try provocation and...

If reason fails, try provocation and disparagement. Why not? Because the evidence requires explanation as to its origin, and you attempt none. What if it is conjecture? Are all conjectures equally...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 5th October 2019, 07:20 PM
Replies: 3,447
Views: 261,387
Posted By Craig B
I think it was George but that's really boring....

I think it was George but that's really boring. Edward VII was Bertie to his friends, and Edward VIII was I think David.
George has this advantage, that the correct regnal number is the same in...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th October 2019, 07:07 PM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
No doubt you find my argument hard to follow....

No doubt you find my argument hard to follow. That doesn't surprise me at all.
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th October 2019, 07:04 PM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
No they don't. The eternal virginity dogma...

No they don't. The eternal virginity dogma vanishes at once, and the idea that Mary had one divine child and also at least six mundane ones or that the Holy Ghost had his wicked way with Mary seven...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th October 2019, 01:04 PM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
What message did you intend me to derive from...

What message did you intend me to derive from your linked article? What did you intend your link to illustrate? That you completely disagree with it? MDH Supposes that we can know quite a lot about...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 5th October 2019, 12:28 PM
Replies: 3,447
Views: 261,387
Posted By Craig B
It's not merely unlikely to happen; it's...

It's not merely unlikely to happen; it's impossible, because if Charles succeeds his mother he will be Charles III of both England and Scotland and Charles I of the UK.
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th October 2019, 12:01 PM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
Here's a passage from Morna D Hooker's work...

Here's a passage from Morna D Hooker's work linked by you.If we concentrate on the whole rather than the details, however, we shall find that we know quite a lot about Jesus, even though we may not...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th October 2019, 11:56 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
Just to preclude the possibility of anyone...

Just to preclude the possibility of anyone adopting that view, I have already pointed out the non-mundane implication of Jesus having at least six siblings. Far from connecting the unbelievable...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th October 2019, 08:31 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
You're dodging my question. Who says Jesus was...

You're dodging my question. Who says Jesus was deaf mute from birth? Answer that, then go on about the other stuff.
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th October 2019, 06:47 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
Give us sources, and a fuller treatment of this...

Give us sources, and a fuller treatment of this point please.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 5th October 2019, 04:43 AM
Replies: 479
Views: 31,671
Posted By Craig B
Here is a characterisation of your other source....

Here is a characterisation of your other source. ... by the time the book was released in Britain, the book was widely regarded as wrongheaded at best and a fraud at worst, including by historians...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 5th October 2019, 04:40 AM
Replies: 479
Views: 31,671
Posted By Craig B
[QUOTE=Cosmic Yak;12845017]The idea that Jews...

[QUOTE=Cosmic Yak;12845017]The idea that Jews were tolerated by Muslims is fiction.
I cannot recommend this book enough: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/789457.From_Time_Immemorial

It would...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 5th October 2019, 04:29 AM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
It cuts it for most scholarsThe Christ myth...

It cuts it for most scholarsThe Christ myth theory is a fringe theory, supported by few tenured or emeritus specialists in biblical criticism or cognate disciplines. It is criticised for its outdated...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 4th October 2019, 11:32 PM
Replies: 2,843
Views: 194,382
Posted By Craig B
Where is there even a statement that Jesus was a...

Where is there even a statement that Jesus was a deaf mute from birth? If there was a statement, we would need to,explain why it was made. But there is none.
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