Zou best kunnen. Helemaal het nieuwe testament, wat pas enkele eeuwen na het leven van Jezus is samengesteld.
Ongeveer 2/3 van alle versen over het leven van Jezus is weggelaten, omdat veel ervan gewoon te ongeloofwaardig waren.
Jezus die op straat vrienden veranderde in geiten, dat soort sprookjes verhalen.
The four gospels that made it into the official canon were chosen,
more or less arbitrarily, out of a larger sample of at least a
dozen including the Gospels of Thomas, Peter, Nicodemus, Philip,
Bartholomew and Mary Magdalen.51Ik hecht er iig geen waarde aan en vind het van de zotte dat er oorlogen om worden gevoerd.
Uit het boek "The god delusion" van Richard Dawkins;
A good example of the colouring by religious agendas is the
whole heart-warming legend of Jesus' birth in Bethlehem, followed
by Herod's massacre of the innocents. When the gospels were
written, many years after Jesus' death, nobody knew where he was
born. But an Old Testament prophecy (Micah 5:2) had led Jews to
expect that the long-awaited Messiah would be born in Bethlehem.
In the light of this prophecy, John's gospel specifically remarks that
his followers were surprised that he was not born in Bethlehem:
'Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come
out of Galilee? Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of
the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David
was?'
Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding
that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get
him there by different routes. Matthew has Mary and Joseph in
Bethlehem all along, moving to Nazareth only long after the birth
of Jesus, on their return from Egypt where they fled from King
Herod and the massacre of the innocents. Luke, by contrast,
acknowledges that Mary and Joseph lived in Nazareth before Jesus
was born. So how to get them to Bethlehem at the crucial moment,
in order to fulfil the prophecy? Luke says that, in the time when
Cyrenius (Quirinius) was governor of Syria, Caesar Augustus
decreed a census for taxation purposes, and everybody had to go 'to
his own city'. Joseph was 'of the house and lineage of David' and
therefore he had to go to 'the city of David, which is called
Bethlehem'. That must have seemed like a good solution. Except
that historically it is complete nonsense, as A. N. Wilson in Jesus
and Robin Lane Fox in The Unauthorized Version (among others)
have pointed out. David, if he existed, lived nearly a thousand years
before Mary and Joseph. Why on earth would the Romans have
required Joseph to go to the city where a remote ancestor had lived
a millennium earlier?
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In the December 2004 issue of Free Inquiry, Tom Flynn, the
Editor of that excellent magazine, assembled a collection of articles
documenting the contradictions and gaping holes in the well-loved
Christmas story. Flynn himself lists the many contradictions
between Matthew and Luke, the only two evangelists who treat the
birth of Jesus at all.50 Robert Gillooly shows how all the essential
features of the Jesus legend, including the star in the east, the virgin
birth, the veneration of the baby by kings, the miracles, the
execution, the resurrection and the ascension are borrowed - every
last one of them - from other religions already in existence in the
Mediterranean and Near East region. Flynn suggests that
Matthew's desire to fulfil messianic prophecies (descent from
David, birth in Bethlehem) for the benefit of Jewish readers came
into headlong collision with Luke's desire to adapt Christianity for
the Gentiles, and hence to press the familiar hot buttons of pagan
Hellenistic religions (virgin birth, worship by kings, etc.). The
resulting contradictions are glaring, but consistently overlooked by
the faithful.
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