Sumerian Plagiarism in the NT Part II

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At 6??? Would of flown, way, WAY! over my head at that age.
I never really had the “talk” but luckily I was a giant nerd in public school, and was way more comfortable playing around with computers then talking to girls. (Or, well, anyone!)

My parents were both hippies too, so other then “practice safe sex” my parents were pretty relaxed about it.

Certainly at that age I just looked the pictures, but with limited access to such material, I eventually got around to reading the articles, especially the parts about “what the girl likes.”

Needless to say, the advice in playboy and what was said about what the girl likes was quite harmful to my perception of actual reality around girls. That’s fine, I still think, in some sort of alternate universe, if I was not a giant nerd I would of ended up getting some girl pregnant, like two of my highschool friends did, while they were in HS. Both great, cool people, but were unable to go to college, both ended up in construction, and have now “wrecked” their bodies, (their own description.)

Topics due certainly derailed, sidetracked, but it is easy enough to get back on topic, add something new to the original topic.

For example:
Do you think will ever write a “new” New testament? The “new” testament is certainly not new anymore, just newer then the “old testament.” The new one is getting pretty horribly outdated, do you think they are going to write a new one to correct some of the thousands of flaws in it? Like the one you pointed out?

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The spear in the side comes from Absalom’s rebellion. John recognizes one of Mark’s sources is the son of David Absalom, who died by his beuatiful hair (Adonis/Tammuz type) hanging in a tree. (Paul and Acts both conflate Jesus of Nazareth’s crucifixion with hanging on a tree.) See my vids on YT. Jesus tales.

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The way to know if something is true, do not study it from others point of view. Study it in practice and acknowledgement of theory. I did not understand Gods love until i experienced it in hard moments.

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More gibberish, objective evidence is the way to support claims, and if one cares about the truth then one ought to bend beliefs to the evidence and try to remove as much subjective bias as one is able. the best method for this is science, this is manifest in it’s astonishing results in a very short space of time. if one wishes only to believe what is true, then clearly the more strict your criteria for credulity is, the more likely it is you will believe only true things. Your posts demonstrate a very low bar for credulity, the weakest of possible evidence and argument accepted for the most extraordinary of claims.

Firstly you have failed to demonstrate a shred of objective evidence that any deity exists, or is even possible, so your unevidenced assertion to have experienced something is meaningless, no different to any other subjective claim, like someone claiming they’ve seen a mermaid, or garden fairies.

Worthy of note is the claim to have understood something here again, but yet again you have offered not one single word that objectively explains it, that doesn’t suggest understanding to me, only a subjective emotion you’re labelling in a way that has no real meaning. I can demonstrate this as well by repeating your claim replacing the word god, and it loses nothing:

“I did not understand Vishnu’s love until I experienced it in hard moments.”

See, meaningless, unless you think I just evidenced Vishnu? One assumes you do not, hence your position also reveals bias.

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I saw a lecture on the Book of John and its similarities to Homer’s Odyssey!

Just thought it was interesting.

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Love MacDonald. Miller (?) is good too. Mimesis is not only in the NT, though.
For example Jesus son of Jehozadak, in the vision in Zechariah 3 is imitating Jehoiachin in Jeremiah 52. This moves the power from the Davidic line (Jehoiachin aka Jeconiah aka Coniah, these are all the same person according to scholars, not just me) to the Leviticial (Aaronid) line, from which Jesus son of Jehozadak descended.
Also in Zechariah 9-14, Absalom’s rebellion is retold for some reason. imho opinion I think it is to deal with Ptolemy Soter sacking Jerusalem near 300 BCE, an event rarely talked about. Beyond that, the saga of Moses/Jesus Nun is retold in Elijah/Elishua, Jeremiah/Jesus Jehozadak, and even Ezra/Nehemiah. Oh yeah, also in John the Baptist/Jesus of Nazareth!!

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More minutiae? Are you trying to make any sort of a point here?
Or just trolling for the sake of it?

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Whenever I observe interactions between dedicated christians and the way they build their arguments or “discuss” through throwing bible verses at each other, I invariably get the feeling that they are really just participating in a massive circle jerk. They observe other peers also throwing bible verses back and forth to add weight to some argument or other (most often of the most inane kind), so they assume this will work also with non- or un-believers. But when they throw bible verses my way, I often wonder if they expect me to participate in their circle jerk. “No thanks, I think I can jerk off on my own, I don’t need a bible to climax”.

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My point is that MacDonald is cool. Mimesis was taught to Greek writers of that era. However, MacDonald ignores the most important Greek text learned by Judeans - the Septuagint!