Resurrection
Joseph Crea Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 08:43:08 +0000 (00917793788, 19990131084308.CVFF27637@LOCALNAME)
Hello, Mark!
At 02:14 AM 1/31/99 -0500, Mark Bakke wrote:
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>BAKKE
>Establishing the location of a city is not the same things as
>establishing the existence of a person who was supposedly from that
>city. For example, many people doubt the existence of Jesus of
>Nazareth, but how many will doubt the existence of Nazareth? Why should
>it be any different with Joseph of Arimathea? Certainly, the Gospel
>writer(s) would know of the city and could weave it into their tale.
>That does not give the existence of Joseph any more validity.
CREA
Our new list member, Saqib Virk, has mentioned Kersten & Gruber's __The
Jesus Conspiracy__ in one of his earlier postings. These esteemed
researchers assert, quite boldly, that Jesus couldn't have come from
Nazareth because IT DIDN'T EXIST at the time of Jesus (citation on page
239). Needless to say, I'm sure a significant percentage of their readers
read this astonishing (and unsubstantiated) "factoid" without blinking an
eye. The editors (the AOS) of Oxford's recently published __Encyclopedia
of Archaeology in the Near East__, which has a very nice article on
NAZARETH, are obviously in collusion with the Vatican in an effort to
distort and conceal the TRUTH about Jesus. ;-)
With Mettaa,
Joseph Crea
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