The Lord is supposed to return for the rapture when the sun is seven times brighter than normal. Is (43)

again with this stuff.... I recommend reading the scholars of the time that Jesus was supposed to have lived... they apparently never heard of the guy as there was no written record of him until after he supposedly was around. How can that be?

Oh, he never existed... moving right along with life...

Brian de Kretser
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(snip)Dawkins, Hitchens, Stenger and many other authors too numerous to name, present historical evidence backed up by plenty of scholars and researches that J.C. did not exist.

This is always disputed by card carrying me members of the god squad and their many agents (believers) who suggest that there cannot be smoke without a fire. Something miraculous did happen in the 1st century AD - Certainly lots of things took place, but no J.C. miracles, not a word.

Let us put aside modern authors and their sources for a moment and go straight back act to the 1st. century, the time in which J.C. was said to have lived and performed his wondrous works. Listed below are a number of writers and historians, many highly reputed for their works. They all lived and wrote during the time or within a century after the time that J.C. is said to have lived, performed miracles, raised the dead, cured the sick and blind, walked on water, etc. followed everywhere he went by great multitudes of people.

Let us start with Philo-Judaeus (20 BC - 50 AD) Philo wrote an account of the Jews covering the entire time that J.C. is said to have existed on earth. Philo was living in or near Jerusalem when J.C.’s miraculous birth and Herod’s massacre occurred. He was there when J.C. made his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. He was there for the crucifixion and all the world shattering events that followed — earthquakes, the sun becoming dark at noon, the graves opening and the dead and long dead saints roaming about the place., supposedly seen by many, also when J.C. himself rose from the dead and in the presence of many witnesses ascended into heaven, but Philo saw nothing, heard nothing, wrote nothing.

Flavius Josephus, the renowned Jewish historian, born 37 AD was a contemporary of the apostles. He was for a time the governor of Galilee, where J.C. lived and taught. Josephus wrote of every important event during the first 70 years AD but J.C. did not get a mention. Later the Josephus writings were interpolated and forgeries which mention J.C. added on. This short forgery was labeled by Bishop Warburton as “a rank forgery and a very stupid one too…” It is mentioned in the Church History, that this was the word of the very dishonest bishop Eusebius. The Catholic Encyclopedia admits that the forged passages were not known to Origen and earlier church writers.

Justus Tiberius was a native of Galilee, he wrote a history covering the period of J.C.’s reputed existence. This work was destroyed, but Photius a Christian scholar and critic of the 9th century who was acquainted with it says that Justus made not a mention of J.C. or his wondrous works.

There were also interpolations and forgeries in the works of Pliny the younger and historian Tacitus (who was born about 20 years after the purported death of J.C.

Due to modern science these are now recognized as forgeries by all scholars both Christian and secular.

The other historians of that time, Arrian, Lucius Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD) Dion Pruseus, Pliny the Elder, Pater Calus, Suetonius, Juvenal, Theon of Smyran, Martial, Phlegon, Persius, Pompon Mela, Plutarch, Quintus Curtius, Lucian, Apollonius, Pausanias, Valerius Flaccus, Quintilian, Forus Lucius, Lucanus, Phaedrus, Epictetus, Damis, Silius Italicus, Alulus Geuius, Statius, Ptolemy, Columella, Diochry Sostom, Hermogones, Lysias, Valerius Maxiimus, Cornelius, Titus Livius, Cluvius Rufus, Publius Petronius (the Roman consul) who lived in Jerusalem. All these heard nothing, not a word was written about J.C.(snip)

How do you find these guys?

Jack Van Impe Exposed

Jack Van Impe and JVIM Presents Tv program breaking broadcasting regulations and evading taxes.

Just so you know - when I see guys like that, I google their name + "exposed" ... easy as that, there's more on him in that search return

Still waiting on the science....