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> Ed Conrad
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> Jesus Christ wasn't even his name. Actually, it was
> Jmmanuel (pronounced Immanuel).
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> And he NEVER once claimed to be the Son of God.
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> He informed his trusted apostles that his father was an
> extraterrestrial, concerned about the future of mankind.
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> And he didn't die on the cross.
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> In fact, he lived to be about 90 years old.
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> The gospels of Matthew -- especially -- but also Mark,
> Luke and John were doctored and heavily edited to conceal
> the truth, to make him a God which he insisted he wasn't.
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> These distortions -- there are many other things as well --
> were well done because their writings were accepted as
> gospel for many centuries. But, finally, truth has caught up
> to them..
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> But what they wrote, and didn't write -- twisting the facts, or
> having the church hierarchy doing it -- amounts to nothing
> more than deceit, deception, collusion and conspiracy.
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> I honestly think Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were innocent
> victims and the alterations were ordered by the bigwigs of
> the early church, promoting their own agenda.
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> In any event, instead of reading your prayer books on Easter
> Sunday, do yourself a favor and spend some time reading
> what's on Jim Deardorff's web page:
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> Savant
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> Well, you are half right. Jesus never did claim to be the son of God,
> that was others calling him that after his death on the cross, which is
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> a historical fact, though the TIMING of the Crucifixion is a topic for
> debate.
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> We have no idea whether a regular person, connected by some fluke of
> chance with the powers of the Universe and the ability to control those
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> powers, would be able to do the SAME things that Jesus supposedly did.
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> There is even debate on whether Jesus DID some of the miraculous things
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> that he was rumored to have done (walking on water, raising the dead),
> because there are other scientific explanations for those actions.
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> For the walking on water, one scientist said that he could have been
> walking on a sheet of ice in a dense fog. Plausible, considering that
> one biblical account tells of Jesus "coming out of the mist, walking on
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> the water".
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> For the raising the dead, it could have been that the person who was
> supposedly 'dead', that little girl, had been in a DEEP sleep or coma,
> and Jesus just happened to come along and gave her a jump start to her
> failing body with his powers, helping her body to overcome the disease
> that was ravaging it. Plausible, though I will admit there is no way to
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> prove it right or not, until we have the ability to travel through
> time.
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