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mrstickball said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
We are talking about the new Testemant Stick, also if the councils were so stringent in avoiding the pagan myths, why did they decided to stick the resurrection of christ right in the spring? When Pagans celebrate the spring? They did that at the first council of Nicea.

The celebration of Easter has absolutely nothing to do with the legitimacy of the Bible. Easter is a tradition practiced by the church, and is outside of what the Bible states about Jesus' death, burial and ressurection - since it states that it happened acccording to Jewish calendar dates, and not the Julian calendar. Jesus' death was/is attributed (as per the Bible) on the 14th of Nissan - which has absolutely nothing to do with pagan celebrations, does it?

And going back to the source of the argument - You were initally arguing that the Bible itself was incorporating pagan myths. Now you are arguing that the church celebrates specific events on pagan days - which I fully agree with. Christmas is the same way.

 

 

 You were asking about the councils, and trying to say that that the councils avoided anything Pagan, I was pointing out that they did not, we were not talking about the Bible at that point.

 

Now as for the source of the argument the argument started when I showed you that there were no first hand accounts of Jeuss, only Dubious second hand accounts and no proof he existed, something you have failed to address

 

Now onto your question about the issue of Pagan myths in the bible, the whole issue of virgin birth, something very prevalent in Pagan myths, and possibly derived from the beliefs of Horus



 

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