Ancient Evidence for Jesus from Non-Christian Sources

PFC Jonathan Albano - Flood stories older than the Bible: Epic of Gilgamesh. Many cultures also have their own versions of a flood story that predate the Bible. So this is just another story to add to the multitude of legends.

Virgin birth - yawn. That's been told before too in other cultures.

It's all stories told in the third person. Nothing is from Jesus' point of view. It was written long after he allegedly died. It's not even complete. Many, many books were left out. Women had a much bigger part but of course the men who compiled the Bible couldn't have women have any type of role.

To me, religions is all bs. It's regurgitated and recycled from pagan beliefs and then changed. You have people who are fighting, murdering, raping, pillaging over it. You have sects within each religion fighting each other over who is right and who is wrong. You have the three Abrahamic religions - Christianity, Islam and Judaism, who have more similarities than differences and yet people fight each other over who is right and who isn't.

Oh God didn't smite humanity for rejecting him? I'm sorry what was the flood about then? Seriously? Mass genocide. Murdering infants. The list goes on. God is a petty and vengeful creature in your belief structure. Deny it all you want. Kind of schizo. Nothing you said will convince me anything differently.

LCpl Cody Collins - So you're saying that you're OK with the OT god condoning slavery, killing all but 8 in a "flood" that never happened, the genocide of the Amalekites, accepting human sacrifice of a virgin, all of that is "good" because god did it? Really?

I'm sorry, but even if you could produce evidence that your god existed, I could not worship someone that immoral. There is nothing good in any of those examples.

LCpl Cody Collins - That's a load of crap. So he can be a total dickhead and humanity just has to accept it? He is "faultless?" F* that. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do. If I don't want to bow down to some egotistical, sadistic deity I won't do it. I'll deal with that when I die.

Why do Christians get so worked up about "saving" people and then telling those who don't agree "well you'll deal with god when you die." Yeah if there is a god I will. And? How is that YOUR problem? How does that have anything to do with you? It doesn't. It's my after life not yours. You do you and I'll do me.

Wow, what are you so angry about?
Anyway, I was in the process of answering your question about Moses in one of your other Text. But somehow I lost the page so I will answer it in this one if you don't mind. You said that Moses did not invent the Brazen serpent on a pole and our pharmaceutical business has that at the symbol today. Well your right, God invented that symbol.
Book of Numbers 21: 5 - 9.
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I can see that, this article is not trying to prove the entire new testament in one swing. All the article does is that it offers evidence that Jesus was a real being, who did in fact exists, and that those sources exist outside of the Christian world.