Excavating The Empty Tomb (beyond a reasonable doubt) PART 5

Did Mark write his "gospel" as a fictional tale? An allegory of the heavenly Jesus "pwning" the Jews for rejecting him? Did Mark rely upon Greek mythology to help him sculpt his own mini-epic? This vid is the start of evidence intended to answer this question.... beyond a reasonable doubt.

The Homer/Mark information I present in this series comes from an amazing book, "The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark" by Dennis R. MacDonald.

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[David325ful]

@TruthSurge Jesus could not just appear in the earth, just like that. Remember He had to fulfill the prophecies [the Prophets]. Genesis 3:15 says He will be born of a woman. God testing Abraham and telling him to sacrifice his only son, foreshadows that God will one day give His only Son to the world. Psalm 22 comes to fulfillment. To every detail and iota.

[TruthSurge]

@David325ful "Jesus could not just appear in the earth, just like that. "

Sure he could. Because there are no prophecies about Jesus in the Old Testament. It's all midrash and pesherim. Go look up those terms and get back to me.

[David325ful]

@TruthSurge Ecclesiastes 12:10 "The Preacher sought to find acceptable words; and what was written was upright- words of truth." What if I told the Egyptians copied Solomon and his great wisdom? Remeber his fame spread and everybody came to hear his wisdom and great understanding. (1 Kings 10:7) Mainly African regions.

[TruthSurge]

@David325ful "What if I told the Egyptians copied Solomon and his great wisdom?"

If you "told" that, I'd ask "where is your evidence?"

Ah, just what I thought. Pure wish thinking on your part.

[David325ful]

@TruthSurge I believe even an athiest can take something good out of the Holy Bible.The Writings of Solomon are very well centered on daily life. It gives advice and wisdom on how you can find favor with man and God. And no I don't believe God came down and had sex with Mary in order to concieve Himself. The Holy Spirit planted the holy Seed in her and the rest is history. Plus her labor was painless that was one benefit.

[TruthSurge]

@David325ful ....another link to Greek myth (virgin born gods).

You are ignorant of all of this and that ignorance helps keep you in the fold, so to speak.

Lots of the Bible was borrowed from pre-existing literature. You prob didn't know that either.  Lots of the proverbs come from Egyptian texts predating the Bible. etc etc etc. I think you would do well to read a book like "Misquoting Jesus". Get away from the insidious brainwashing of the church.

[EmpiricalTruth]

This is an excellent series...

[David325ful]

@TruthSurge If then that's true and there is no prophecy regarding Jesus in the OT and it doesn't speak of Him nor His promise, then I should just throw the Holy Bible in the trash since it's worthless. The Prophets labored in vain and the Law should be discarded. They did not pave the way for the Anointed. We are all destined to hell. The OT is the backbone of the NT.

[TruthSurge]

@David325ful "The Holy Spirit planted the holy Seed in her "

But this holy spirit had to physically come to earth in order to do it because the text (which you seem to eschew) says that this spirit OVERSHADOWED her. In other words, it was ON TOP OF HER. Odd, I would have thought god could just poof himself onto earth in ANY form BUT the birth stories of Matthew and Luke were added LATER in order to explain just how Jesus was the son of god AND to provide anther link to...

[TruthSurge]

@David325ful I think when you believe that a god had sex with a young girl in the Middle-East in order to give birth to himself, you've stopped learning.