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   Ben Kaufman to linuxgal   
   Re: Jesus will not return   
   28 Aug 12 08:24:03   
   
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   From: spaXm-mXe-anXd-paXy-5000-dollars@pobox.com   
      
   On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:58:30 -0700, linuxgal  wrote:   
      
   >Ben Kaufman wrote:   
   >>   
   >> But it wasn't sudden.  The first writings about Jesus occurred decades   
   after his   
   >> alleged death.   
   >   
   >Because Jesus boofed it when it came to his own belief that the Day of   
   >the LORD would be within the lifetime of some of his own followers.   
   >Only when a generation had passed away did people start collecting   
   >scriptures.   
      
   It seems to me, you see a man cure the blind, walk on water, rise from the   
   dead,   
   you don't wait 60 years to write about it, oh wait, no, you can't write about   
   it   
   because you're dead.  This is clearly the work of a story teller.   
      
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