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   From: spaXm-mXe-anXd-paXy-5000-dollars@pobox.com   
      
   On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 11:25:16 -0700, linuxgal  wrote:   
      
   >Ben Kaufman wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 06:19:55 -0700, linuxgal    
   wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> 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.   
   >>> I'm sure he existed, but the thing is, death is **defined** as the   
   >>> irreversible cessation of life.  So if Jesus reversed it, then he didn't   
   >>> die, by definition.  And the afterlife doesn't work either, in the same   
   >>> way you can't divide by zero.   
   >>   
   >> Why are you sure that he existed?   
   >   
   >The Way of the Nazorene was a sudden transformation of Judaism into a   
   >proselytizing version.  Those sorts of things come to us from   
   >individuals, not multi-generational committees, such as some scholars   
   >suspect Master Lao really was.   
      
   But it wasn't sudden.  The first writings about Jesus occurred decades after   
   his   
   alleged death.   
      
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