XPost: alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism, talk.atheism
XPost: talk.religion.newage
From: spaXm-mXe-anXd-paXy-5000-dollars@pobox.com

On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 11:25:16 -0700, linuxgal  wrote:

>Ben Kaufman wrote:
>> On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 06:19:55 -0700, linuxgal 
wrote:
>>
>>> Ben Kaufman wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:41:31 -0230, David Dalton  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Jesus will not return.
>>>> One has to have existed in order to return.
>>> I'm sure he existed, but the thing is, death is **defined** as the
>>> irreversible cessation of life.  So if Jesus reversed it, then he didn't
>>> die, by definition.  And the afterlife doesn't work either, in the same
>>> way you can't divide by zero.
>>
>> Why are you sure that he existed?
>
>The Way of the Nazorene was a sudden transformation of Judaism into a
>proselytizing version.  Those sorts of things come to us from
>individuals, not multi-generational committees, such as some scholars
>suspect Master Lao really was.

But it wasn't sudden.  The first writings about Jesus occurred decades after
his
alleged death.

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