YouTube - The Jesus Myth

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Okay one more time: Nearly everything in the following video is  a lie. Can't be substantiated and can be refuted literally in seconds.  I was sent a link to it via Twitter by hudsonryan. And he sent it as if it contained faith-shattering information I have never before heard or considered. Awwww.....isn't he cute? Misguided and misinformed...but cute. Before I go forward here is the video:




There is nothing new here! It's been refuted and rebutted ad nausem before my great-grandparents were even born. The crux of the argument is that what the Christian Church teaches about Jesus so closely resembles prior myths of deities dying and rising from the dead that we must of, at best - been influenced by them; at worst - stolen from them. I've been researching this line of argument for the past half a year and I find that the points that are most often used to say that Jesus is just another myth are:

1. Born of a virgin
2. Crucified and Resurrected 3 days laters
3. Had 12 disciples.
4. Born December 25

The problem is that if you take any of the supposed other myths and try to line them up with what the Bible says about Jesus, you get no such match!!!!

Nada!!!!

You can find my research on several of the myths mentioned in this video under the label "Bible Defended" but I will take the rest of this article to link to specific posts on the characters that the video spent the most time time on. I also have to point out that no where in the Bible does it say Jesus was born December 25th, so that parallel shouldn't even be brought up but the ignorant keep using it. As for the others, I refuted them in the following posts:

Mithras and Horus
Dionysus
And others plus related apologetics

Much of the material mentioned in the article was the basis of the Zeitgeist movie. I posted in an earlier article along with a rebuttal from a real historian. You can read and watch the post at

Zeitgeist

YouTube - The Jesus Myth

Interactive Documentary | Becoming Human

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Here is an interesting article about human evolution. A lot of information is presented but there is not a single example of explaining why their conclusions are valid. How do we know that they are their ancestors? How do we even know that these bones are what we are being told that they are? I mean why is it that when I say that the Bible is true some immediately conclude that I blindly believe that and it couldn't possibly be true, yet another person tells them that the bones of a living thing is an ancestor proving that our ancestors closely resembled apes without explaining why they came to that conclusion - that they believe!?! Talk about blind faith!




Interactive Documentary | Becoming Human

Christian Apologetics - Life and Doctrine: Trinity : On Omnipresence and Pantheism

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Mariano has posted another great article about the nature of God. This post explains how Pantheism does not equate to Omnipresence as the Bible talks about. It is a brilliant article. God exists in a way that a human mind can't quite grasp. I notice many people who try to refute the existence of God employ straw men arguments because they don't understand how the Bible describes God's nature. On top of that even us believers don't quite grasp it either. Articles like this one helps!

Christian Apologetics - Life and Doctrine: Trinity : On Omnipresence and Pantheism

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Luther: Women were made either to be wives or prostitutes

On his blog James Swan does an excellent job refuting the assertion that Martin Luther had a dim view of women and marriage. Many of his accusers are Roman Catholic apologist who assert that Luther once wrote:

"The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes."

Okay, before you call for Luther's head, please read James Swan's post regarding the context and history of this quote and what Luther is actually on record for teaching.


Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Luther: Women were made either to be wives or prostitutes

bethinking.org - Bible + Jesus - Ancient Evidence for Jesus from Non-Christian Sources

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Brian, from Apologetics 315, has tweeted a great article. You can read the article at the link below. The article presents ancient sources about Jesus Christ outside of the New Testament. Here is this introduction:

Although there is overwhelming evidence that the New Testament is an accurate and trustworthy historical document, many people are still reluctant to believe what it says unless there is also some independent, non-biblical testimony that corroborates its statements. In the introduction to one of his books, F.F. Bruce tells about a Christian correspondent who was told by an agnostic friend that "apart from obscure references in Josephus and the like," there was no historical evidence for the life of Jesus outside the Bible.[1] This, he wrote to Bruce, had caused him "great concern and some little upset in [his] spiritual life."[2] He concludes his letter by asking, "Is such collateral proof available, and if not, are there reasons for the lack of it?"[3] The answer to this question is, "Yes, such collateral proof is available," and we will be looking at some of it in this article.

bethinking.org - Bible + Jesus - Ancient Evidence for Jesus from Non-Christian Sources