That video (which you blatantly didn't even bother watching) does make a lot of theories based on possibilities with not much evidence.. So don't even bother watching it..
I put it to you that 3 of the 4 gospels were rip off's of the first, that the first was written using Jewish scripture (or the ye olde testament) and that the original was never meant to be taken literally, it was meant to read as an allegorical fiction.
OK.
Luke is not written as an eye-witness account, so it makes sense it wasn't the first.
Mark, Matthew and Luke are all pretty the same stories, jumbled up with some small additions depending on the agenda of the author. The gospels of John also contains the same events but his writings are a lot more intelligent and eloquent. It is clear that Johns gospels were written after all 3 of the others.
Mark is the shortest but more importantly it contains nothing of the virgin birth. This is obviously not a part of the story that someone is going to miss out. It's generally accepted among New Testament scholars that Mark's is the original. From wiki: "Such observations have been taken by most scholars as a strong clue to the literary relationship among the synoptics and Mark's special place in that relationship.[11] The hypothesis favored by most experts is Marcan priority, that Mark was composed first and that Matthew and Luke each used Mark and incorporated most of it, with adaptations, into their own gospels."
So Mark was the original text. All others used Marks to write their own.
Matthew, Luke and John are all written in opposition of each other. They build upon Marks writings but introduce theological differences and enhancements they wish to add depending on their agenda. Matthews contribution is the forcefully cramming in "prophecy fulfilments" while Luke seemed to be trying to make the story friendlier for nearby nations (by relating the story of Jesus to Palestinian and roman history as well as contemporaneous churches.. he was basically trying to gain followers and / or make christianity seem more legit / less threatening. John's agenda seems to be giving a ..!.. to the Jews.. Always portraying them negatively, referring to them as 'the Jews', filling his works with stories of miracles and signs and then at the end saying after all of that, they still didn't believe he was the messiah. We'll come to Marks agenda at the end
Now..
Almost every detail of Jesus comes straight from the Old Testament in 3 types of ways; explicitly referencing hebrew scripture, using hebrew scriptures for underlying theme and quoting or paraphrasing hebrew scripture without indicating that they had..
Type 1 example:
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John 12:
12 The next day the great crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting,
‘Hosanna!
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord—
the King of Israel!’
14 Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it; as it is written:
15 ‘Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion.
Look, your king is coming,
sitting on a donkey’s colt!’
16 His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written of him and had been done to him.
This passage in John refers to Zechariah 9, which discusses the judgment of the enemies of Israel and the coming of a warrior who will lead the Israelites against their enemies:
Zechariah 9:
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion!
Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem!
Lo, your king comes to you;
triumphant and victorious is he,
humble and riding on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
and the warhorse from Jerusalem;
and the battle-bow shall be cut off,
and he shall command peace to the nations;
his dominion shall be from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Type 2: Isaiah 13 is basically the underlying theme of Jesus' life
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Isaiah 53:
Who has believed what we have heard?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by others;
a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity;
and as one from whom others hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him of no account.
Surely he has borne our infirmities
and carried our diseases;
yet we accounted him stricken,
struck down by God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions,
crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the punishment that made us whole,
and by his bruises we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
By a perversion of justice he was taken away.
Who could have imagined his future?
For he was cut off from the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people.
They made his grave with the wicked
and his tomb with the rich,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with pain.
When you make his life an offering for sin,
he shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days;
through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.
Out of his anguish he shall see light;
he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge.
The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;
because he poured out himself to death,
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
Type 3:Read these passages from the Old Testament in this order.. Notice anything?
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Isaiah 50:
6 I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.
Amos 2:
11 I also raised up prophets from among your sons and Nazirites from among your young men. Is this not true, people of Israel?' declares the LORD. 12 'But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
Psalm 22:
1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from the words of my groaning?
...
7 All who see me mock me;
they hurl insults, shaking their heads:
8 "He trusts in the LORD;
let the LORD rescue him.
Let him deliver him,
since he delights in him."
...
16 Dogs have surrounded me;
a band of evil men has encircled me,
they have pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I can count all my bones;
people stare and gloat over me.
18 They divide my garments among them
and cast lots for my clothing.
Psalm 69:
Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Amos 8:
8 "Will not the land tremble for this, and all who live in it mourn? ... 9 "In that day," declares the Sovereign LORD, "I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
Ezekiel 37:
12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. 14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and I have done it, declares the LORD.' "
And then there are loads of one for word (or very close to) copies from the OT to the New.. here are a few:
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Matthew 26:20: "Even the friend whom I trusted, who ate at my table, exults in my misfortune."
Psalm 41:9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Matthew 26:55 "...he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away. And who can speak of his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was stricken. "
Isaiah 53:7-87 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Matthew 9:12 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings."
Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
There are fuckin loads.. but seeing as you keep telling me to read the bible I'm sure you must have.. Did you notice the others?
Before you say: "Yeah that's because Jesus was fulfilling prophecies" stop. And think. Most of the parallels between Jesus and the OT aren't prophecies.. And even if you managed to perform your grade A mental gymnastics to believe that, how do you explain the prophecy that was never told?
The virgin birth.
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Matthew 1:22 22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23 "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel"—which means, "God with us."
Isaiah 7:14 minstranslation "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
The correct translation of Isaiah 7:14 reads: "Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son" ..
You should get yourself one of these bad boys.. Seems the greek translation of the hebrew scripture wasn't very accurate.
So why did Mark write the gospels in the first place?
The gospels of Mark were written as a work of fiction, the stories within are metaphorical. Jesus is the authors personification of his idea of God in a metaphorical sense, not a literal sense. Why do i say these terrible things? Writings had different structures depending on what they are, as they do now - compare a news article to a work of fiction to a text book, or even writing formally or unformally, you follow?
The gospel of Mark (or indeed, any of them) are written in such a way that you would write a fictional story. It is written in a narrative fashion and makes no claim to be a historical account. Historical works had a table of contents, were written formally and the writer identified themselves, You can see this if you read some texts like The War or the Jews by my man Josephus Flavius, History of Rome by Livy (30 BCE), The Histories by Tacticus (109CE).. Mark develops characters and has a plot, with scenes, suspense, and a climax.. Historical facts don't work like that.
The crucifixion happening on passover only makes sense if looked at as if a metaphor. The Sanhedrin had a set of very strict rules which include;No criminal session was allowed at night. No Sanhedrin trial could be heard at any place other than the Temple precincts. No capital crime could be tried in a one-day sitting and no criminal trial could be held on the eve of a Sabbath or festival. On passover, however, there would be many animal sacrifices.. I'll let my man Josephus explain:
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The feast of unleavened bread succeeds that of the Passover, and falls on the fifteenth day of the month, and continues seven days, wherein they feed on unleavened bread; on every one of which days two bulls are killed, and one ram, and seven lambs. Now these lambs are entirely burnt, besides the ewe lamb which is added to all the rest, for sins; for it is intended as a feast for the priest on every one of those days.
- Antiquity of the Jews, Josephus
Hmmm.. A lamb that is sacrificed for sins.. Wasn't Jesus referred to as a lamb, oh i dunno, 100 times throughout the bible?
So why did Christianity become so popular so quickly? Could it have been a perfectly executed ploy by the Romans to gain control of a troublesome area, or maybe they realised the power religion held over people and wanted some of the action, maybe they wanted to build an empire than would never fall, and always gain wealth.
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1 Peter 2:13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority,
13 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. ...... 6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
This one is important:
16 Now about the collection for the Lord’s people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do. 2 On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made. 3 Then, when I arrive, I will give letters of introduction to the men you approve and send them with your gift to Jerusalem. 4 If it seems advisable for me to go also, they will accompany me.
And who is it that accompanied him?
2 Corinthians 16
Thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same concern I have for you. 17 For Titus not only welcomed our appeal, but he is coming to you with much enthusiasm and on his own initiative.
lol.. Fuckin Titus comes to collect the collection money.. You know who Titus was, right? Get the New Testament and the writings of Titus' campaign around Judea and put them next to each other. In the same order, in the same places, Jesus will be performing an exorcism while Titus is spearing the Jews who were forced into the sea. The guy was responsible for the burning of the great temple of Jerusalem. He slaughtered many a pesky Jew. Looky at what they built in celebration of their victory:
That pic is part of the Titus Arch and it clearly depicts the Romans carrying stolen Jewish goods, but in particular the Menorah.. Wonder where that is now.. hmmmmm..
Not only that but Jesus "prophesied" the event happening. Luke (maybe Matthew, too) had also plagiarised a lot of Josephus' work, but replacing the slaughtering of Jewish militias by Titus and his army into quaint little stories about a friendly jew performing miracles.
Examples?
http://www.josephus.org/ntparallels.htm
Or there are some less obvious ones which are only noticeable as they run in the same order:
http://altbibleschol.freehomepage.co...Parallels.html
The parallels between Josephus' work and things found in the bible suggest that not only is the bible a retelling of events from roman conquests into jesus' life but that everything "known" about Jesus' life can't be true.. as Josephus' War of the Jews was written waay after Jesus was dead.. but around the same time as the gospels of Mark.. This also explains why Jesus' prophecies came true (all within the 40 year period between the time of Jesus and the gospels of Mark and events carried out by Titus as documented by Josephus.
So.. we've got..
Parallels between New Testament and War of the Jews (or Titus' campaign).
The Roman Catholic church being what it is.
The teachings of Paul (and Jesus) concerning obeying emperors, and preaching against disobedience (a lot), etc.. "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" and all that.
The introductory of the collection plate by Paul (as well as a few other catholic ideas i noticed while reading his books this morning)
Titus personally collecting the money.
The seemingly desperate agenda to converting Jews.
"Prophecies" coming true that were never told.
The anti-Semitic undertone of parts of the bible.
There are letters from Paul to Titus.. very "obey your emperor" and lovey dovey.. Titus, at this point, i believe was in the Roman consul..
There's more my brains just gone dead.
So we have 3 gospels all copying one but adding their own twist on things but all in the end the original story of Jesus was nothing more than an allegorical fiction using Jewish scripture for inspiration and plagerism.
So raas, based on the evidence presented, I bid to you;
Jesus never existed.
Please, tell me why or how I'm wrong.. or are the facts i've presented a biased interpretation fuelled by a deep seeded hate for religion?
