Comment by Morgan Matthew on September 3, 2011 at 11:11pm

Comment by Rick on September 4, 2011 at 12:35am

Sweet! Thanks, Morgan!

Comment by Suzanne Olson-Hyde on September 4, 2011 at 5:17am

Fantastic research Rick - so much time put into this presentation, very much appreciated. Thank you.

Comment by Rick on September 4, 2011 at 9:14am

Suzanne: I can take no credit for this video other than finding it on Youtube. Sorry if anything led you to believe otherwise.

Comment by Suzanne Olson-Hyde on September 4, 2011 at 7:39pm

My fault - just assumed. Still brilliant, and still, thank you for presenting it to us. It is just fantastic, that there are like minded people, putting this together.

Comment by Kairan Nierde on November 9, 2011 at 5:40pm

All of the NT texts on Jesus were written 50 to several hundred years after his death (or, if you don't believe in the historical Jesus, then think of it as the time after the teachings began to spread once the Jesus myth became established).  I think the hell/salvation story was created to explain why the "Messiah" (a God-figure encumbered by a mortal body) had to die.  Similarly, I think the second coming theology developed to account for the deliverance prophesies of the OT, and the fact that Christians still lived under persecution after their "Messiah" had come and gone.  

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