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Did Jesus exist, Part II

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Message 84 of 301 (278049)
01-11-2006 9:26 AM 		Reply to: Message 82 by Faith
01-11-2006 9:00 AM

Re: The Story of St. Issa
As a human being he had to grow and learn just as we all do, but what he learned was the Old Testament.
It is interesting that you say this.
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I sometimes see people referencing a statement by Jesus, say about Jonah or about Noah, and saying that since Jesus was omniscient this shows that the OT story is literally true. However, if Jesus was human and had to learn just as everybody else, then that is not persuasive reasoning. If he was omniscient, then there was no need to learn.
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By the way, I agree that the gospel stories require that Jesus was human and not omniscient during his earthly lifetime. Otherwise he could not have been subject to temptation. It seems to me that the gospel story depends on this.
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01-15-2006 6:56 PM 		Reply to: Message 242 by JJMorgan
01-15-2006 5:49 PM

Re: Professors of history
Are there any professors of history at major universities who deny that Jesus ever existed? I don't think so. The Jesus didn't exist school is dominated by non-historians who are not familar with historiography methods.
Surely we should evaluate this work by the quality of the scholarship, not by the credentials of the scholars.
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01-15-2006 8:37 PM 		Reply to: Message 252 by JJMorgan
01-15-2006 8:04 PM

Do you have a point?
Name one professor of history at any major university in the whole wide world who denies Jesus existed.
I don't recall anybody in this thread denying that Jesus existed. The thread has mainly been a discussion about the evidence of his existence.
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01-15-2006 9:59 PM 		Reply to: Message 269 by Buzsaw
01-15-2006 9:44 PM

Re: Scholar/Scholorship
Btw, NWR is one tough squirrel. I think I just nipped his tail.
As jar pointed out in Message 266, your aim was off
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