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- From: jtauber@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (James Tauber)
- Newsgroups: alt.messianic
- Subject: Re: Getting the facts!
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 13:35:26 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- (RBNXHS@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com) wrote:
- : I agree with 'Newport' on the matter of lack of historical proof about Jesus,
- : his birth-date, his so-called crucifixion, and surely about what he said and
- : preached. The whole history about these important pieces are either missing,
- : or are of dubious origin, knowing very well how these have been distorted or
- : corrupted by zealous evangelists to make a god out of a human being. Out of
- : this mess, as Newport rightly mentioned, the gospel accounts are anything but
- : trustworthy, and that is why, there are so much inconsistencies between the
- : various narrations, from birth to so-called ascension of Jesus. All these
- : writings about Jesus in the NT cannot be considered to be inerrant word of
- : God, or inspired by God, when they contradict each other on essential details.
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- Such as?
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- : There are other writings about Jesus, which are considered to be Apocryphal
- : by christian clergy, and which has survived, which provide quite a different
- : understanding about the teachings of Jesus, and about his life. Which one
- : to believe in - is it these pseudepigraphic books which now form the canonical
- : books of NT or the Apocryphal Books.
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- I just ask HaShem and He tells me! Try asking Him, you may be suprised.
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- : Siddiqui.
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- In His Majesty's Service
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- James Tauber (Yaakov ben-Avraham)
- jtauber@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
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