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Originally Posted by TawG
I find this highly unlikely. We're not talking modern times, most people didnt live untill they were 80-100 in biblical times. Life expetancy back then must have been something around 40 years tops for someone like the apostles.
And one of these apostles actually traced Jesus' bloodline back to king David/Davis and the grandfather (Josef? moses? dont remember) for all the jews. Allthough i doubt these researches were accurate or done in such a manner that they could be called proof of him beeing messiah.
As for the whole thing, Jesus lived, and he died. Lets leave it at that. Any attempt at diving deeper into the whole issue i find destructive, and its probably best to forget all about him and the cruelties he brought into the world.
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There are plenty of theologians who do not take the "bloodline" in the Bible as literal truth. To be honest, it doesn't matter. As for the apostles lifespans, they were likely quite young when they started following Jesus - between 16 and 20 - which would make them about 45-60 when the Gospels were written. Either way, that also doesn't matter since I never said they wrote the Gospels. Their followers did, applying their names to the works much like was done with kings in the middle ages.
As for cruelties "he" brought into the world - I won't even bother to address that since the cruelties were brought into the world be people NOT following him rather than following him. It's about on par with saying Islam is a hateful religion.
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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
His message to us was clear: Love your fellow man, and do unto others as you would have them do unto you. To me, that's the only part that matters. I wish more people would agree with that, it seems like we would have a better world if they did.
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Just for reiteration.