soc.culture.iraq

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:59:37 -0800 (PST),
"@" <@> wrote:

>On 19 Feb, 15:38, Richard Anacker <...@> wrote:
>> ...@ schrieb:
>>
>> > On Feb 19, 12:31 pm, Richard Anacker <...@> wrote:
>> >> ...@ schrieb:
>>
>> >>> But surely we may simply push this back and ask the same question of
>> >>> atheists (and we won't get an answer, that's for sure).  Classical
>> >>> authors write about the gods.  They also write about the Caesars.
>> >>> Does this mean that the Caesars didn't exist?
>> >> No.
>>
>> > Erm, why not?
>>
>> apples, pears? Sources, lots of writings from different people that
>> didn't worship them?
>
>True; but the same applies to the original 'question'.

Questions like the ones you run away from instead of addressing?

You know, from the discussion on Josephus where you accused people of
getting what is obvious, from "paperback books" and "atheist hate
sheets" because you can't conceive of anybody thinking for themselves?

The ones where you said we should take your word for it because you
knew what you were talking about and we didn't?

Hear they are again:

Why would a Jew who never converted call Christianity "the truth?

"Scholars think it's genuine".

Why would a Jew have called the coming of the Messiah a misfortune for
the Jews?

"Scholars think it's genuine"

Why would a Jew who believes the OT prophesies referred to earlier
more mundane events, think Jesus was 'as the Divine Prophets
foretold'?"

"Scholars think it's genuine"

Why would a Jew have called Jesus the Messiah and not converted if he
believed it?

"Scholars think it's genuine"

Why does he say "about the same time" when describing events circa 19
CE, for something 14 years later? This would be like saying that Gary
Powers was shot down about the same tine as the Pearl Harbour attack.

"Scholars think it's genuine"

What do you imagine that this tells us about both you and these
so-called "scholars"?