>-----Original Message-----
>From: john grigg [mailto:starman125@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 4:44 PM
>To: extropians-digest@extropy.org
>Subject: Christ, evangelicals and divine punishments...
>....I was fascinated by the thread about Jesus Christ. I had already read
>various views on his historical origins but still found the discussion to
be
>food for thought. I believe Christ to have lived and also to have been
>divine but can see how people could contend over his origins. I must do my
>own research to see how accurate the posts were of certain people as to the
>evidence or lack of regarding him. I find it very hard to believe that a
>person could take the view that Christ never even existed. From a
>legalistic view at least it would seem very definite that he did.
Personally, I find it very easy to believe that christ never existed.
Here's a great piece that is well written and exhaustively documented about
the historical origins of Christianity itself and the historicity (or lack
thereof) of jesus.
http://www.truthbeknown.com/origins.htm
Here's another good site with lots of heretical info about mormonism:
http://www.mindspring.com/~engineer_my_dna/mormon/
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