:shrug: it's fun to play with. I enjoyed the DaVinci Code, and a few of the copy-cat models that sprung up afterwards. But it's for enjoyment, beach reading, escape from reality, what-have-you. But it's the historical equivalent of this guy:
:shrug: it's fun to play with. I enjoyed the DaVinci Code, and a few of the copy-cat models that sprung up afterwards. But it's for enjoyment, beach reading, escape from reality, what-have-you. But it's the historical equivalent of this guy:
I'll have to watch it when I get back home.
Unless proven otherwise, the gospels had various authors, all being Jewish-Christians.
They were actually written in Koine Greek (there is a difference) which was a common language of politics, business, and trade in the Meditteranean region at the time. Much like English is today. Since Christianity was a religion to be spread to others, I imagine that using such a common language was the best approach. Judea is also right on the Mediterranean.
I don't believe that they did.
That I couldn't tell you, since that's still up for debate. Judea was a Roman territory, which probably had a lot to do with it.
Whoever came up with that bit must have had something fun to drink. St Peter (the first Pope) was from Bethsaida, which would be in present day Syria. I somehow doubt that a Jewish Syrian would have any blood relation to a Roman Caesar.
Well, it seems like a lot of falsified "evidence" is going to have to be weeded through on this one. I'm not a Christian, but I do demand factual integrity from scholars. The more I look into this, the more I doubt that facts have anything to do with it.
The religious scholars of the day laughed at Galileo, too.
Until they find the physical evidence that Jesus existed such as a skeleton or a diary then belief is all it is.
No, they didn't. The Vatican put him under house arrest for the rest of his life. The irony is that Galileo wrote some of his best work while under house arrest.
Okay, it was religious "historical" scholars that laughed at Galileo. Is that better? The point is many of his own peers and religious historical scholars were judging the science of Galileo as false.
Pretty much. How do you know if Abraham really existed? Because the Bible tells you so?
couldn't tell you that - I've never shaken His hand. Trite, but a strawman - as that description does not accurately apply to the early Church. Being a Christian demands that one work much harder at life, it puts quite a few more requirements into life. It certainly does not make life easier - it makes life better. And you never asked yourself if perhaps they weren't lying?
rof Not true - the Jesuits in particular were very interested in and corroborated Galileo's work, and the Pope even gave him a medal of commendation for it. It was when he took his studies in geometry and astronomy into theology and began to insist on changes to Church Doctrine (in particular to argue that heliocentrism dispelled the idea of a special relationship between God and Man) that he ran afoul of the Church authorities.