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Originally Posted by hannukah harry
your drift is caught, and it's a bad analogy.
we have washingtons writings. we have paintings of him that were done during his lifetime (so we know he was a whiteman that wore an english style wig) and i do believe we have his fake teeth in a museum, although i could be wrong about that part. we have his signiture on documents, we have thousands of contemporary eye-witness accounts describing events that had happened hours and days before.
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I could just as easily have made up this person years and year and years ago when storytelling was the major medium. I could have fabricated to my audience when they were sitting around me the whole story. I could have made three false paintings of what he looked like and people could have continued from what they saw and fabricated his picture also. I'm not for one second saying that George Washington didn't exist, I'm just telling you that after no one is alive that lived during the times that these things happened, they could just as easily become fictional stories that someone made up for personal gain. Eventually these stories become real. Another theory is similar to The Village. If you have seen that movie, you know that there was a small village seperated from the "outside" world in which they created their own realities.
with jesus we have a book compiled 300 years after he died consisting of smaller books that were written at the closest 30 years after he died. and those individual chapters are very possibly written each by multiple authors who may or may not have known jesus and been who they say they are.
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if jesus was so important, why didn't his buddies have him sit for a painting? why didn't they write down and chrnonicle his life while following him around? why'd they wait 30-60 years (at minimum) before finally writing it down? why is he not mentioned anywhere else by anyone? what makes you think that the bible is inerrant when it was written so long after he died? and then with all the contradictions?
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My belief is that Christ was too humble for a painting. Or perhaps they just sucked at drawing. I can't draw worth a lick. I could be asked to draw my mother, and I promise you couldn't tell who she was supposed to be. The bible is the most accurate book that I have ever read. Contradictions don't exist, unless you want them too.
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you may not be able to see or hear washington because he lived before the age of video. but we know what he looked like and what he thought and wrote about, we know what others that lived during his time thought of him. with jesus we only a white man on a cross (who wasn't white) with stories written by a few people long after he died.
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We know that Jesus was of Arab decent with black hair. According to you we don't even know that he was on a cross, these things weren't written before he'd been risen for 30 years. Why do we not think that perhaps these things were written down during his lifetime, and perhaps, revised or edited later? We write rough drafts, then second drafts, then third drafts, then fourth drafts, before finally getting to something that is worth publishing. Why would something as important as Christ not go under the same scruitny?