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Author Topic:   Evidence of Jesus in the entire bible.
truthlover
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Message 4 of 132 (50424)
08-13-2003 6:36 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Newborn
08-13-2003 6:04 PM


Newborn, you don't have to do all that work. If you want the most comprehensive treatment of "Jesus in the OT" that there ever was or ever will be, go to Early Church Fathers - Christian Classics Ethereal Library and follow the links for Justin's "Dialogue with Trypho" in volume 1 of the Ante-Nicene Fathers.
Surely, there's no way Justin missed a single potential reference.

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truthlover
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Message 23 of 132 (50736)
08-16-2003 7:50 PM
Reply to: Message 11 by Brian
08-14-2003 4:01 AM


Another example of Jesus harming someone is when he sent Legion into the herd of pigs and they ran over a cliff and into the sea. Forget the problem of the nearest sea being 20 -odd miles away for a moment, but Jesus effectively took away the pig herder's source of income, what a nasty piece of work that Jesus character was.
I don't get the 20-mile thing. The story says he just got off a boat after crossing the sea of Galilee.
Even if the "country of the Gadarenes (Gergasenes)" would normally be taken to be somewhere 20 miles away, wouldn't it be safer to assume that whoever wrote that story was talking about the coast of the Sea of Galilee? Couldn't "country of the Gadarenes" be a reference to the people that inhabited that place, rather than a specific city or something?

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truthlover
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Message 25 of 132 (50760)
08-17-2003 9:22 AM
Reply to: Message 24 by Brian
08-17-2003 7:17 AM


PS, still working on the trial text.
I could tell by your discussion in one of the other threads.
Thanks.

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