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Matthew 4:24 - " News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed; and he healed them."

Really? Yet NO WRITER from the first century in that region (and there were many) made even a mention of the famous, make believe God. Weird, huh?

davtim68 7 Dec 30
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That Mathew sucked a lot of dicks!

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Im with MsOliver... who witnessed all this stuff? Irs all man made man writren man man man. It's always man.

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Well, you see...if you're one of the faithful then you believe it's all true!!! Faith is the key, and I suppose gullibility, lack of critical thought, lack of...well you get it. 😉

SamL Level 7 Dec 30, 2017
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Faux Bible.

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Real miracles would have been helpful, even real illusions there of. The fact is there were magicians everywhere, religious leaders whom were said to do all kinds of miracles.
When everyone can call a psychic in a second and none of them really do any miraculous things like win the lottery no one pays them any attention.
The same was true for Jesus, the claims about him were what was to be expected and thus not noteworthy.

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"The world" has many definitions. Perhaps those areas do, too. They have certainly gone through many upheavals and peoples.

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Bad fiction ?

Pulpit Fiction

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Not only that, a section of Josephus had to be forged and inserted into the original work to make it LOOK LIKE Jesus was as presented in the gospels.

Does the West take any ancient writing as seriously as these "books"? Why?

@GoldenMean Depends on who you mean in the west. Generations of archaeologists and Egyptologists worked on finding the meaning to the Tempest Stele. Folks were digging up the entire eastern Mediterranean to see if it matched anything. When it was finally confirmed that the Stele matched the Thera Event ( Mt. Santorini volcano) the entire field of Egyptology moved the dynastic timeline up a hundred years. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory held a symposium discussing a contemporaneous Chinese text similarly describing a major agricultural disruption. But the same story was in Genesis, and no one who was not a pre-High Criticism Biblical critic or a fundamentalist Protestant Christian paid any serious mind to it. My guess is that what's being taken seriously in the west is this idea of unearned grace providing salvation from something, and no one gives a tinker's dam about historicity in the Bible. I hope that answers your question!

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