> WillBo wrote: > how about the odd similarities of the "Jesus" story, virgin birth, son > of god, slaughter of innocents, etc.
So you bring up 2 issues: 1.) Did Jesus exist? 2.) Was he divine? For issue #1, the consensus is yes. But to look at it from the other direction, who would make up Jesus? For what purpose? What he really did was to support the Jewish faith so would it have been Jews? And then how would the myth survive despite Roman records and witnesses? And since he, or his myth, undermined the Romans wouldn't they have had a big motivation to squash the myth? For issue #2, well, we don't know. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:221870 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
