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Originally Posted by awareness
you'll find better results trying to figure out what Jesus was thought of in the minds of those 2000 years ago, and since, and why Christianity was so inclined to spread in the Roman world, by looking into the Greco-Roman world I say :
The story of Jesus is like the stories of the children of Zeus ...
The rest is then up to you. I'm saying if you look into it, you'll likely be quite surprised at how well it fits ... considering how minds, even of Jews, were working back then ... and the Roman powers and influences 'that be' were working back then ...
The Jesus story wasn't a new story back then, and could be easily accepted by minds steeped in the Greek Roman world, which was pretty much everyone ....
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Harold,
If the "Jesus story" fit into the Greco-Roman minds so well, then why in the heart of Greek culture and learning, the Areopagus in Athens, did the contempory philosophers confront Paul, calling him a "
babbler," yet some still wanted to hear him, because he was "
an announcer of strange demons -- bringing good news of Jesus and the resurrection?"
Sounds to me like the whole "
Jesus story" with Him resurrecting from the dead was altogether "
new news."
Something they had never heard!
Actually the bigger question you need to address is your own motive. Why do you post what you do? Why do you fill your heart with "factoids" which seem to discredit the scripture? Why are you so afraid the Bible might be true?