re christian morality is acooper mac cc macalstr edu turin turambar me department of utter misery said re dan schaertel s article if i followed the quoting right as much as anything else you learn how do you choose what to believe and what not to i could argue that george washington is a myth he never lived because i don t have any proof except what i am told however all the major events of the life of jesus christ were fortold hundreds of years before him neat trick uh how is this there is nothing more disgusting than christian attempts to manipulate interpret the old testament as being filled with signs for the coming of christ every little reference to a stick or bit of wood is autmoatically interpreted as the cross what a miscarriage of philology i think it may also be worthwhile pointing out that if we take the appellation rabbi seriously then jesus had a full grasp of contemporary scripture mat jesus saith unto them did ye never read in the scriptures mat jesus answered and said unto them ye do err not knowing mat the scriptures nor the power of god following from this he would have been in a wonderful position to fulfil prophesies and the nt says as much mat but how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled mat that thus it must be mat but all this was done that the scriptures of the mat prophets might be fulfilled then all the disciples mat forsook him and fled if the books comprising the referred to scripture had not been accessible then it probably would be a different matter tony
