40 links have been added on 13 ideas about #christ.
  1. Over three-quarters of Mark’s content is found in both Matthew and Luke, and 97% of Mark is found in at least one of the other two synoptic gospels. Additionally, Matthew (24%) and Luke (23%) have material in common that is not found in Mark.

  2. Same story – different spin – blatant that they kept all versions in there – a good way to give a bit of what everyone needs to belive, I guess.

  3. Most scholars agree that Mathew is a propaganda version of Marc that was put in its place at the start of the new testament. Not just fudging it with obvious additions that Jesus was descended from Abraham/Moses/David etc, but also that he got stuck in Egypt, was a Nazarean, and all the other stuff that needed to be ticked in order for existing Jews to accept they had a new messiah on their hands. Pretty obvious to those who actually read the bible in a historic context. Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCyFw3jnoUk

  4. RudeJude

    To be fair many educated jews spotted right away that Mathew just added a bunch of stuff that would allow us to follow Christ without rousing rabbis – little did they know the book they wrote was a hit with gentiles, which was a bit lucky (in that it gave rise to the biggest world religion within a few hundred years). Funny old world.

  5. We are not a market, and not just do-gooders, we are doing good. for God.

  6. How about a year of excommunication – simply be rejected by the church until you have served your sentence?

  7. Ahh, no. Jesus was a Jew, probably the worst Jew when you consider what he did to the religion. He even stole things and didn’t feel bad about it or ask for forgiveness. He didn’t follow himself and was not without sin. Not the type of sin his followers would have recognized anyways. Think again.

  8. You can sin. You just need to realise it may land you in damnation.

  9. Genius – Nietzsche portrays Christ as an anti-establishment upsetter of the order of power. You know, Trump of yesteryear 😉

  10. All empires fall in time. So yeah, I like this idea. I don’t belive in God and unsure if Jesus was a real person but I am convinced that the Bible is a pretty special document. Hard to deny that. Shame people don’t bother with it because it has been abused by those wanting power over others for so long.

  11. Don’t fall for using the sciency part of your brain solving this mystery. Have faith that there is a reason for your existence and it is to love God, each other and yourself. Even scientists agree.

  12. Galileo’s letter… “had not been printed, and so did not come under the Congregation’s jurisdiction. It was therefore passed over to the Inquisition. Here it was routinely read by a theologian-consultor, who quickly expressed an opinion. He pointed to three unfortunate formulations (all of which were different in. Galileo’s new “correct” version), but concluded that the letter was nothing to get worried about.” Big mistake…

  13. There aren’t ten! there are hundreds. They just kept tacking them on to get folk to do what they wanted.

    “And there is no agreement on which ten of the many are “the” ten. The phrase “ten commandments” appears in Exodus 34 and in Deuteronomy 10, which is a reference, but not a list. The strange thing is that the line about Moses writing on the (new) tablets “the ten commandments” is preceded by a list of totally different orders, such as “you shall keep the feast of the unleavened bread”. The familiar list is given earlier in Exodus 20, except that it is never there called “the Ten Commandments” and there is no mention of tablets until 11 chapters and 600-some commandments later.”

  14. Agreed, starting with “Be open-minded and be willing to alter your beliefs with new evidence.” (Jeremy Jimenez) and ending with “Leave the world a better place than you found it. (Maury McCoy)”. Christians wouldn’t like this though why? “Love not the Earth, for the Earth shall pass”, idiots.

  15. “How do we know that in 1945 the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan? Because of details and facts from all three forms of testimony.”

  16. lol, it wouldn’t be much of a read, with like 20 pages “Most statements by religious people boil down to ipse dixit assertions. “Jesus was resurrected because three women saw him.”

  17. From a Quora user… “If the book of Genesis were written today, it might be written pretty much as it is now. Genesis is not now, nor ever has been, a history textbook. It was never intended as such, and quite frankly, anyone who ever took it as such had some of the poorest critical reading skills ever.”

  18. you can take “your last breath” with you when you die. Not sure what else though, good thread here https://www.quora.com/What-is-something-that-you-cant-take-with-you-when-you-die-but-you-cant-live-without