How did he die?
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califor123 — 11 years ago(August 29, 2014 09:14 AM)
The aortic dissection is when the wall of the aorta splits longitudinally into two channels. It can occur from trauma to the chest, high blood pressure, or other reasons not known to medicine. It's a terrible condition, often lethal if left untreated.
megafauna wrote: "Jesus NEVER existed! He is Judeo Christian MYTH!". So, I guess Mary Magdalene was his MYTH-IS. -
megafauna005 — 11 years ago(August 29, 2014 08:21 PM)
Yeah John's brother had the procedure which corrects the aortic dissection. John didn't follow up with his doctors properly because if he did he would've had the corrective surgery himself.
Califor, Scripture is NOT evidence! There are scriptures that say the holy trinity is Vishnu,Shiva, and Brahma and make NO mention of Jesus like in the Bhagvad Gita, Upanishads, Rig Vedas, etc. Not a SINGLE historical character outside the bible saw an earthly Jesus, Moses, Mary, Abraham, etc.
Remember the same way you Christians dismiss other stories of gods and other scriptures the bible can be dismissed as well!
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deep-focus — 11 years ago(September 18, 2014 04:58 PM)
sorry to put a crimp in your comfortable Jesus theories, chaps, but he DID exist. For example, Roman historian, Tacitus refers to "Christus" and his execution by Pontius Pilate. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus
I guess the question one has to respectfully ask is "why are you seemingly so obsessed with proclaiming Jesus' non-existence"? is it that what he had to say makes you feel uncomfortable? Yes, his teachings and the church he founded have been misused by funda111cmentalists for their own political purposes but that doesn't make what Jesus said not worthy of being respected. His teachings of peace and love are often conveniently downplayed.
Gosh, when he talked about "peace and love" John Lennon was widely praised as a hero. I wonder if 2,000 years from now whether there'll be people who'll dismiss John Lennon's existence??
Peaceout,
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megafauna005 — 11 years ago(September 28, 2014 03:52 AM)
NONSENSE Deep-focus! Tacitus and Josephus weren't EVEN BORN YET when Jesus allegedly lived and NEVER saw an earthly Jesus! Plus Tacitus and Josephus also wrote about Hercules so now you believe in Hercules? Read below and get educated!
The question of the historical existence of Jesus has hit the news with the recent, intriguing lawsuit in Italy by Luigi Cascioli, who is suing a priest, Rev. Enrico Righi, over his published assertion that "Jesus did indeed exist." Such a claim, Cascioli says, is a deception, an "abuse of popular belief," which is against Italian law. The lawsuit refreshingly demands that Righi prove that Jesus existed.
In his defense, Righi and obliging media have trotted out many alleged evidences for Jesus, long ago discounted, yet which continue to pepper the credulous writings of conservative religious authors and scholars.
According to the Associated Press, Righi "cited many known observers, including nonChristian ones, who have written about the existence of Jesus, such as the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, considered by scholars to be the most important non-Christian source on Christ's existence."
Here is the paragraph that currently appears inThe Antiquities of the Jews,written by Josephus around 95 C.E.:
"Now, there was about this time, Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful worksa teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named for him are not extinct to this day."
Ifthisis the strongest and earliest extra-biblical evidence for the historical Jesus, then the scholarship is on the shakiest grounds. That passage from Josephus has been shown conclusively to be a forgery, and even conservative scholars admit it has been tampered with. But even were it historical, it dates from more than six decades after the supposed death of Jesus.
The Associated Press chose to omit the fact that scholars have largely discounted the Josephus paragaph as a later interpolation. The passage, although widely quoted by believers today, did not show up in the writings of Josephus until centuries after his death, at the beginning of the fourth century. Thoroughly dishonest church historian Eusebius is credited as the real author. The passage is grossly out of context, a clear hint that it was inserted at a later time.
All scholars agree that Josephus, a Jew who never converted to Christianity, would not have called Jesus "the Christ" or "the truth," so the passage must have been doctored by a later Christianevidence, by the way, that some early believers were in the habit of altering texts to the advantage of their theological agenda. The phrase "to this day" reveals it was written at a later time. Everyone agrees there was no "tribe of Christians" during the time of JosephusChristianity did not get off the ground until the second century.
If Jesus were truly important to history, then Josephus should have told us something about him. Yet he is completely silent about the supposed miracles and deeds of Jesus. He nowhere quotes Jesus. He adds nothing to the Gospel narratives and tells us nothing that would not have been known by Christians in either the first or fourth centuries. In all of Josephus' voluminous writings, there is nothing about Jesus or Christianity anywhere outside the tiny paragraph cited so blithely by the Associated Press.
This paragraph mentions that Jesus was foretold by the divine prophets, but Josephus does not tell us who those prophets were or what they said. This is religious propaganda, not history. If Jesus had truly been the fulfillment of Jewish prophecy, then Josephus would have been the exact person to confirm it.
Andthisis the "most important" historical evidence for Jesus!
The other phrase from Josephus that Righi and AP cite concerns James, the so-called "brother of Jesus," and is likewise flimsy. It says that a man named James was stoned to death, which is not mentioned in the bible. Many scholars believe the "brother of Jesus" phrase is a later interpolation, and that Josephus was referring to a different James, possibly the same James that Paul mentions in Acts, who led a sect in Jerusalem. Contradicting Josephus, Hegesippus wrote a history of Christianity in 170 C.E. saying that James, the brother of Jesus, was killed in a riot, not by sentence of a court.
Righi also cited Pliny the Younger, who, in the early second century (112), reported that "Christians were singing a hymn to Christ as to a god." Notice how late this reference is; and notice the absence of the name "Jesus." The passage, -
christopherlowery1991 — 11 years ago(October 24, 2014 10:26 PM)
Cool story bro. I don't know what's more pathetic, the thought that you may have written that entire post just to make a point to someone (on the John Ritter IMDb board, no less), or that you have quotes on standby that you're ready to copy and paste at any given time. Why waste your time anyways? Devout religious won't care, atheists don't need to be convertedI just don't get it
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TMC-4 — 9 years ago(December 23, 2016 06:06 PM)
When the aortic valve in the heart ruptures it is typically preceded by a dilation or widening of the aortic root. As a result of the dilation, there is a typical rushing sound of blood inside the heart. An incipient aortic aneurysm can be detected at an early stage by having your doctor listen to your heart and then hear this rushing sound.