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Originally posted by Charlatan
As for Abraham, Adam, etc. these are just characters in etiologies... there is no reason to suppose they were real people. So why attribute them this sort of significance? It might be better to say the person or persons that created these stories and characters is quite influential... or the person or persons upon which the myth of Abraham was created... but to say there was actually an Abraham seems a bit of a stretch (well for me anyway).
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Actully I have seen secular evidence for the existance of Abraham. He is ingenerally considered to have been a real person who did exist. Same for Moses. Adam less so. Jesus WAS a real person. As was Muhammad as was Siddhartha Gautama. I find it funny people who get to the point of hating religion so much they start to deny that the prophets that started it didn't really exist. I mean so far we have yet to deny Muhammad or Siddhartha Gautama but I have no doubts that in 1000 years there will be people with refer to Muhammad as a fictional charector just because they dislike the religion.
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Meridae'n once played "death" at a game of chess that lasted for over two years. He finally beat death in a best 34 out of 67 match. At that time he could ask for any one thing and he could wish for the hope of all mankind... he looked death right in the eye and said ...
"I would like about three fiddy"
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