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- From: choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.)
- Subject: Re: What did Judas betray?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.163053.18791@access.usask.ca>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:30:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.020311.1270@hfsi.uucp>, ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata - FSO) writes:
- |> following observation. Just for grins, I looked up "Jesus" in my
- |> copy of the "Random House Dictionary" (hardly a Chrisitian
- |> publication). It's definition is as follows:
- |>
- |> Jesus : born 4? B.C., crucified A.D. 29?, the source of the Christian religion.
- |> Also called Jesus Christ.
- |>
- |> As a control :) the definition of "Lincoln" is:
- |>
- |> Lincoln: 1. Abraham 1809-65, 16th president of the US, 1861-65.
- |>
- |> While not definitive proof that Jesus was crucified, it certainly bears out
- |> the contention that it is the historically accepted version which is in
- |> complete agreement with all four Gospels. It would appear that the onus is
- |> on you to make the opposite case.
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- Something that happened 19 centuries ago opposed to something that happened
- 2 centuries ago. Wasn't there a Dark Ages somewhere in those 19 centuries?
- All the emotion, controversy, politicking, evil, etc. surrounding Christ's
- life gives me no confidence in the Gospels. However, to be scientific,
- there should be some way to test all this religious stuff.
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- Henry Choy
- choy@cs.usask.ca
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