.............Shortly before he died, Alexander ordered the Greek cities to
worship him as a god. Although he probably gave the order for political
reasons, he was, in his own view ans in that of his contemporaries, of divine
birth. The order was nullified by his death shortly after he issued it.
pg.370
So we have a great deal of documentation that Alexander existed. His
mother apparently claimed she dreamed she mated with Zeus in the form of a
snake prior to her marrage to Phillip and apparently believed that it was
this divine union that produced Alexander. Alexander believe he was the son
of Zeus and the oricle of this god confirmed it. I again ask any Christian
who cares to answer, why is it any more logical to presume the badly
documented (compare to Alexander's history) Gospels' tale of a son born of
god than to presume Alexander was Zeus's son. Son of deities were a dime a
dozen in the Greek world and your NT written in Greek and shows much to
suggest that the writers of it were much more at home in the Greek worls than
in the Hebrew, so why are we presume this book is more true than any other of
the time?
Helen Willis
hhiwater@bright.net
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