THE MOST DAMNING THING ON CHRISTIANITY
Jesus died and his death and resurrection was attached to Easter/Ishtar which is originally a Spring fertility festival tied in with the first full moon after the Spring equinox. Why would this be done? It means that Easter was March 30th in 1986 and April 23rd in 2000. Easter has a moveable dateline. If Jesus died on the Friday before Easter he doesn't rate highly enough to have his own date of death. Nuff said?
Others claim that the actual 3 days and 3 nights involved were Wednesday through Saturday, but mostly this is the Seventh Day Adventists who then have Jesus rising on their own sacred day of the week.
Still others say that the resurrection of Jesus was actually connected to the Passover, which lasted more than one day but again has a movable dateline. Passover was when god killed all the firstborn except for the Jewish ones, and it had to do with the Exodus from Egypt which we know today never really happened. The Jews were not slaves to Egypt. Why would Jesus' resurrection be tied to Passover?
To the Romans early Christianity was a Jewish movement. Did someone put this together in a way as to give Judaism its Messiah in hopes of avoiding future conflict? It appears so to me except for the "moveable dates" involved. This is where the fiction comes in, but someone prior to 325 AD was trying to attach Jesus to Judaism perhaps for this reason.
Imagine a real person that you know who wants to keep the memory of his loved one alive so every year he commemorates the anniversary of that death. The problem is that you notice his loved one dies on a different day every year. You might humor him or you might think he was insane.
You might assume that his loved one never rated highly enough to have his own date of death. In this case the loved one is most likely a fiction. So much for Jesus Christ and his death and resurrection for the sake of our sins.
Then you have the issue of his birthday on December 25th which is a whole other thing. The Roman Catholic Church decided on that day in the 4th century.
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That which is original in Christianity is not good
That which is good in Christianity is not original
It is a religion made up of bit and pieces stolen from and assimilated from earlier cults sects and religions
LenHazell53
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Jan 4, 2020
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Not sure why this is a problem. Grafting an important event on to an already existing important feast is a sensible idea for attaining primacy.
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As you say Seventh Day Adventists. Swiftly Passing Over
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As point 1
4). As point 1
The phenomenon of Jesus’ ministry is real, whether historically accurate is a moot point. A groundswell of reaction to it occurred in C1st Judea causing much consternation to the Romans.
Nero found them a suitable scapegoat!
Geoffrey51
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Jan 4, 2020
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What phenomenon of Jesus' ministry did we have? The Gospels are not eyewitness accounts and were written around 70 CE. (70 AD) The Romans destroyed much of the temple about that time and this event was previously used by believers to prove prophesy. What it proves instead is a later writing of the Gospels and the phenomenon of Jesus' ministry is really something written of after the supposed fact and was distorted and used by Saul of Tarsus to give us all the Christianity of today.
As for calendars, the Julian calendar came into being in 45 BCE which some of us call 45 BC. People of Jerusalem had to have some form of remembering events rather than tying them to religious ceremonies. Would people simply say an event was before or after Passover? Passover of what year. If date keeping back then was this problematic then so is god's divine plan.
Nero had a problem with Christians during his reign from 54-68 CE.
His predecessor Claudius expelled Jews from Rome because as Suetonius, notes in Claudius, 25.4: “Claudius expelled the Jews, who were constantly making disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, from Rome”
Christianity, then, had a mission by around 50 CE.
Yes, but one other thing that you have to remember, is that the calender did not exist at the time Jesus was supposed to have lived, nothing like it came in until the Julian calendar on Jan 1 45 ad/ce. Before that people used many different ways of counting the time at that time. And some would still be using loonar months and other methods long after Augustus tried to codify the calender. Also there is good reason to think that if there ever was a real Jesus, then it is quite likely that he lived many years before the usually accepted date, if only because the myths seem to be well developed quite soon after then.
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