Jesus famously said to his followers on Mount Etna -
"yay, when thee are cold ye may look unto the Lord for he has love and will warm his flock. But low are the trecherous hearts of men and women who fornicate and beat the child. Mark God's Child and you mark God. Do not beat the blessed innocents for they have soft bones and will be taken into care." Is this evidence that Jesus was thrashed as a child? Was he even real?
2007-01-29 01:18:23 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't know where you got that quote from, but it ain't from the bible. Also, Mount Etna is in Italy - Jesus never went there.
For independent evidence that he actually existed, read Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews, book 18, chapter 3, verse 3. Josephus was a self-professed Jew.
2007-01-29 01:34:07 · answer #1 · answered by Pete J 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He was real because we can see the results of His life. You know a source by its effect. The existence of the universe implies the existence of a Creator and the existence of Christianity implies the existence of Jesus.
Jesus was not thrashed as a child. I don't think He ever went to Mount Etna.
2007-01-29 09:22:11 · answer #2 · answered by darth_maul_8065 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
We should know when after Jesus was born, the king planned to kill Him, which resulted to a massacre of baby boys. Jesus was saved because He was brought to Egypt. That statement above is not real because Jesus never went to Mt. Etna. Besides, Mt. Etna is a volcano. Mt. Etna is very far from Israel. Mt. Etna is in Sicily, which is an island that is part of Italy.
2007-01-29 09:23:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes he was real but not the son of god.His actual name was Jehoshua Ben-Pandira and according to a genuine Jewish tradition he was a disciple of Jehoshua Ben-Perachia who was born in the 4th year of the reign of the Jewish King Alexander Jannaeus. This would be more than a century earlier than the given date.According to the 'Talmud' the only Jesus known to the Jews was Jehoshua Ben-Pandira,who had learnt the arts of magic in Egypt and who was put to death by stoning and hanging for being a sorceror.Likewise this is the only Jesus known to Celsus, the writer of the 'True Logos',a work which the Christians managed to get rid of altogether as with many other anti-Christian evidence.
2007-01-29 12:23:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Very unfortunate question choice. When you see or hear words attempting to discredit,doubt or seek factual proof of Jesus,you see or hear the work of Satan. The dark force of evil and Satan uses these people as vessels to put out the slurs and oppose the only Master who is Jesus Christ. The way the Truth the Life. Ignore the answers who take His name in vain. Just say "get behind me Satan !!" and ask Jesus to cast out these evil demons. NOW !!!
2007-01-29 15:41:02 · answer #5 · answered by Thom Jo D 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was real, is real, His life is documented by historians.
Your "scripture" or whatever it is, is not real, He never went to Mt. Etna, nor ever made this statement. The bibles warns us numerous times to resist false prophets, you need to take heed, cause it looks like that you're quoting a false prophet.
2007-01-29 09:27:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have absolutely, no doubt to the existence of Jesus and his family. However, all the stuff we read about is of the same ilk as the stuff of legends. For example, George and the Dragon, Robin Hood, King Arthur, etc. Folklore is usually displaced to the status of "tales" and we learn/read about them through stories and stuff. Many of the great miracles contained within the Bible are now being proven by scientific and natural phenomena, previously misunderstood by our ancestors.
The verse you quote is a powerful and topical one which is basic commonsense and decency among the larger part of any society. It only proves that these problems have been with us for longer than humanity would like to admit!
As for being thrashed as a child, who knows and who will ever know? Without a personal diary of the great man himself, like the legend itself, it will be our own imagination that determines the boundaries of truth.
2007-01-29 09:39:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Definitely. Leaving religion out of it ( which I suppose offers the best evidence) The Roman historian Sutonius (who was born a Jew), writing years after the crucifiction refers to 'The man Christus, if He was indeed a man'.
2007-01-29 12:12:20 · answer #8 · answered by fred35 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-01-29 09:26:44 · answer #9 · answered by wb 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe - he did exist - but as a human and not as the Son of the being for-told as God.. ...Ever heard of the Medicine Men...aka Travelling Salesmen - who toured the Wild West... I think the person described in the Bible was just that ..a Medicine Man... who also performed minor illusions... and so the people were fooled into believing he was indeed ...Jesus ..the Magnificent... just a thought... if anyone has any evidence please let me know...
2007-01-29 09:27:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋