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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/20/2025 7:00 AM, Andrew wrote:   
   > "Dawn Flood" wrote in message news:10al6le$ss81$1@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   >> My best guess is that Jesus was a Jewish apocalyptic preacher who   
   >> got on the "bad side" of the Romans, and they dealt with him in the   
   >> "Roman way."   
   >   
   > No, according to the Bible it was not particularly   
   > the Romans, but the religious authorities of that time.   
   >   
   > After they arrested Jesus they brought Him to the Roman governor of   
   > Judaea, Pontius Pilate. They   
   > even had to wake him up.   
   >   
   > So it wasn't the Romans, but the Jewish leaders   
   > who officially rejected Him, and demanded for   
   > Him to be crucified.   
   >   
      
   Oh, sure, and the Gospels also record that "the sky becomes (became)   
   dark in daytime during the crucifixion of Jesus for roughly three hours..."   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion_darkness   
      
   I don't believe it; in my opinion, it was "a theological and literary   
   creation" (per the late scholar Raymond E. Brown.)   
      
   Believe such things, if you wish; I don't.   
      
   Dawn   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)