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   From: spaXm-mXe-anXd-paXy-5000-dollars@pobox.com   
      
   On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:23:19 -0230, David Dalton  wrote:   
      
   >In article ,   
   > Ben Kaufman  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:41:31 -0230, David Dalton  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >Jesus will not return.   
   >>   
   >> One has to have existed in order to return.   
   >   
   >Yes, there is the argument that Jesus was a fictional   
   >character, a composite based on earlier figures.   
   >But I believe he existed but not that he was resurrected   
   >and not that he was some God incarnate.   
      
   I think that if he actually existed there would have been some contemporary   
   historical recording of him.  The fact that it's several decades after his   
   death   
   that "Jesus" is first written about really indicates a fictitious character.   
   >   
   >I say on my web page that Jesus and Taliesin (Gwion Bach)   
   >are the two figures I have the most evidence for my being   
   >similar to.   But I also have some evidence for Moses,   
   >Jacob, Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Quetzalcoatl, Iowa Dakota   
   >Salmon youth, Adonis, Amergin, Fionn, Myrddin, The Turquoise   
   >Bee, and a few  more so far even though I have done very   
   >little library research after 1997 (I expected readers   
   >would come forward with more data but none have).   
      
   There is no question that Moses is purely fiction.  The Exodus story was   
   created   
   to give a heritage to "expatriates"  of Egypt who lever by mundane means over   
   time, who eventually referred to themselves as the Hebrews.   
      
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