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Originally Posted by JB3
you have a hymn supposedly written in the first years after the crucifiction and fragments from the gospel of John, and how does this prove your point and disprove mine?
I said religious figure of extreme importance.
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Both of those documents claimed that
Jesus was God. I don't know how much more "extreme importance" one would require.
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My point is that with Christ in living memory the Jewish Nationalist zealots rose against the Romans, in a manner completely at odds with Christ's teachings and message.
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And? They were Jews, not Christians.
non sequitor
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I have no doubt that there were people in his time that deified him, so it seems that large numbers seem to have not regarded him as a deity until later on.
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Let me know what a "large number" is.
It was large enough that the Roman Empire persecuted them for tax evasion and treason (because they were not a legitimate or legal religion).
It was large enough that they were mentioned by plenty of people in government positions.
Please, there were plenty of Christian early on. Don't be so naive.
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Greazzer and Larry would have us believe the liberals are deifying Obama even as we speak. Do we all believe that? nope.
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I cannot even begin to respond to such a ridiculous bit of logic.