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It's 2 A.D. (Or C.E. - your choice) in Israel.
Mary Carpenter appears at the local kindergarten to enroll her little boy. The principal is shocked: young Jesus is the only five year-old boy in all of Israel! And so it will be for the rest of his life...so much so that he will seldom be called by his real name, but instead referred to simply as “the five-year old boy”, or “the ten year old” boy, or whatever.
It seems that while the Carpenters were on a beach vacation in Egypt, mean King Herod had ordered his minions to off every male in the kingdom under the age of one. Thereafter, Jesus would be the only male of his age in all of Israel.
Fascinating story, not? Only, quite obviously, it never happened. Which, in turn, leads to a similar conclusion being drawn about almost every other claim made about the now-famous Galillean peasant.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Jesus is just a retelling of the Mithras mythology. This was a Persian deity worshipped by the Zoroastrians and Roman Soldiers believed it and spread it throughout the Roman Empire centuries before the supposed birth of Jesus . All the details of Mithras and Jesus correlate....if you look it up you will see, it is a direct copy.
Marionville
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Aug 6, 2018
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Not all... Mithras was not a dieing and rising god for example. But the "bones" of the story were not unknown throughout the region and period.
@jeshuey Maybe not an exact copy, but close enough to draw comparisons I’m sure you will agree!
Herod the Great died in 4 B.C.E., in Jericoh, and for the last year was in extreme pain and pretty much lost his mind. So the "Massacre of the Innocents" would have had to have taken place in either 6 or 5... since Herod had boys two and under killed. Only Matthew and Luke put Jesus in Bethlehem, and only Matthew sends his family to Egypt. Mark has him born in Galilee, and John skips right over his birth...
As to the claims of the Galilean peasant, it's important to understand that he never made any of those claims. The earliest of the Gospels were written after the destruction of the Temple, meaning that Paul had already canvased the Mediterranean with his Hellenized "Christ" based on a guy he knew nothing about.
Benthoven
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Aug 6, 2018
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?? Very nice!
But wait... If it was 2 AD, how come baby Jesus was already 5?? Is it a miracle the bible didn’t mention? Premature aging?
Lucignolo
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Aug 6, 2018
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He supposedly was born 2-3 BC, if you rely on the info about the Governor of Syria.
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