Originally posted by leonheartmm
the very existance of the character of jesus is a dubious fact. the bible is a collection of over 180 books. of which around 90 are generally chosen to be compiled nito what you call the king james/new international version.these books were chosen by constantine{who was himself a sun worshipper} for his political ends. to unite the empire with one strict philosophy. MANY opposing books were burnt and thrown away. the church was foremost in these endavours. it was NOT an organisation of christ's wishes but of PAUL. its motivations were purely political. very few opposing texts{which were also as authetic as the bible of today and had VERY opposing views of the whole relegion and christ himself as divine and whatnot} u find some like the gospel of judahs even now which survived.
furthermore the gospels THEMSELVES, are written as you well know, by SAINTS, and the revelations THEY recieved and the things THEY wished to put in as historical facts. in the bible itself, less than one or 2 percent of all content is actually that from the mouth of christ himself{the RED LETTER BIBLE, which atleast has a POSSIBILITY of being christ's own teachings}. all else is content from the SAINTS. furthermore the conten has more logical contradictions than can be counted{tens of thousands with ease}. also, it is all{new testatment} in greek not christ's tongue. furthermore it has been translated many times and many fabrications continue to exist because of churche denominations which were even taken out as beng fake by christian scholars and put back in due to only the opposition of TWO church denominations{im talking about the only verses which HINT towards trinity} furthermore concepts like trinity, rapture, and jesus being the son of god in the literal sense dont even EXIST in the bible as it is. not to mention him DYING at the cross.
there is also the fact that jesus in the red letter, proclaimed that he didnt come to destroy the commandments of old. yet the non red letter bible teaces things other than the old testament.
reasons why there never was a true BIBLE ot begin with. its all made up.
Christ's existence is pretty much written in stone. Scholarship is nearly perfect agreement on that fact. To say otherwise is pretty much rambling idiocy. The King James Bible is 66 books and the Roman Catholic bible is hardly more, 72 going off the top of my head.
The books were not chosen by Constantine. This is a pure falsehood. The canon was decided at the Council of Nicea where Constantine was not present and was not a voting member, but nice try.
The motivations of the church are not purely political. You will have to back that up more substantially because there were churches well before the time of Constantine. Also, the structure of the church remained unchanged in the time of Constantine. Constantine used religion as a political tool which is far different than the church being politically motivated. Did the church take advantage of their new found freedom in a malicious way? Yes, but that has nothing to do with Constantine or the validity of the church.
Jesus dying on the cross is definitely in the Bible, you'll have to back up the outrageous claim that it isn't. Furthermore, all three concepts exist, perhaps not in the commonly known form, but they are there with 100% certainty.
Jesus spoke Greek with nearly 100% certainty as he was known to quote the Septuagint almost exclusively and taught in the synagogues. He also spoke Hebrew and Aramaic. So you have another fail there.
Furthermore, the "saints" that wrote the NT were apostolically supported or were apostles themselves. They had nothing to gain from adding their own words at all. You'll have to give some explanation as to why they would do that if you want to hold that claim. Especially considering each apostle carried the same message all over the Roman Empire unchanged and before the writing of the Bible and were martyred for their beliefs (except John). What political advantage was their to willingly being martyred? None, therefore your argument fails.
Jesus didn't come to destroy the commandments and he did not. Christ built on the law and extended salvation to the Gentiles who are not bound to the law as per the Old Testament. Therefore, Christ did not contradict the Old Testament and you are arguing from ignorance.
Please try again when you have done REAL research from CREDIBLE sources not some anti-Christian ranting garbage website.