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They didn't get god "wrong". Only that your beliefs think that they got god/gods/goddesses wrong.
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I think perhaps you misread the paragraph you quoted above this statement. Are you saying the narrative of the Old Testament did not demonstrate that the prophets didn't always understand God? Are you saying the narrative does not tell us what Yahweh told them to say, and that they said something else instead? Are you saying that the prophets were shown by the narrative to have a perfect understanding of God? Your response is not clearly connected to what I actually wrote.
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There isn't even a strong indication that a Jesus existed, but then again it is your belief and I expect you to back it up to the hilt with the biased teachings of Christianity. Objectivism is not really something anyone of any religion is good at when dealing with their own beliefs.
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I can't think of any other person that wasn't an emperor who was mentioned more in various writings from this period than Jesus. By the standards you impose to prove someone's existence, even guys like Julius Caesar never existed. How many times is his name mentioned in documents of any kind that are written by people that actually met him?
Saying that Jesus never existed is based on a presuppositional antipathy toward Christianity. There is evidence of His existence. You reject it. Fine, but what is your basis for that rejection? What evidence do you have that all of these people that spoke of the man Jesus were not writing about an historical person? lost gospels that were written hundreds of years after the fact? The gnostic Gospels are predated by all canonical gospels. There are a vast amount of writings by the early Church fathers older than any Christian Gnostic writings. Can you give me a list of writings that quote these lost gospels? Anything?
You claim the objective high road, so what is the basis of your claim?
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