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Originally Posted by The_Heretic
My fiction does borrow from historical events, so I'm sure there's a limited basis of truth on which the bible's based.
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The Book/Bible is Jewish. The Christian Bible is a revision thereof. And all the other Bibles are revisions of revisions.
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Sure Jesus didn't raise people from the dead or ressurect himself after dying, but those wouldn't be the most important aspects of his life.
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Jesus dying and coming back to Life is based on the Pagan God(s) dying and being reborn (twice a year, summer and winter) directly addressing the cycles of life of our Mother, the Earth. It is based on the premise, that nothing ever really dies, it just changes.
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What makes him important is that he introduces nonviolence into western theology, possibly bringing from the east.
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He
tried to introduce non-violence. Didn't work/take, did it? No.
"One Man of Peace dies....and a thousand Wars begin...."