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Will you please attempt to figure out what B.C .and A.D. ("Before Christ" and "After Christ") mean in relation to the calendar. Thank you.

Not a chance. Krishna no more existed that the man in the Moon.

You cannot be serious, unless you are telling me Krishna is the Hindu name for Jesus. In which case you need to worship Jesus who was real.

You want archaeological proof! Christianity is the teaching of Jesus. No Jesus, no Christianity. You want proof of Him, what can't speak can't lie http://www.sacred-destinations.com/italy/rome-catacombs http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Whatever you think about Jesus this thread is still about Him.

This thread is about JESUS.

There are no such things as talking snakes and neither are there trees of the fruit of knowledge. It was an Old Testament parable. The snake represented satan or if you like the wrong thoughts that come into our head and the point about disobedience is that we do things KNOWING them to be wrong, this is the tree of knowledge and it gets worse when we tempt other people and lead them astray as well. By the way it could have been either Adam or Eve who did wrong and caused to other to do wrong as well. Please do not blame womankind, it is down to ourselves to do what is right and we only know right from wrong when we come of age and when we know the difference.

Adam and Eve, by whom I mean the parents of Cain and Able, were not the first people. Neolithic man came before they did and then there was the Ice Age and the Stone Age and then we had Cavemen. Adam and Eve were not the first people ever, they were living in the Bronze Age and human beings had been living long before then. Quite simply Adam and Eve were the first people in the Bible. If you read Genesis 4 you will see that Cain went to the land of Nod (another country) where they were building cities (other people) Cain was worried he might be killed by "every one that findeth me" so obviously there were other people living in other lands. Then we continue to read in Genesis chapter four that they had the harp and the organ and they were working in Brass and Iron. Clearly the Bible is not talking about early man and certainly the Bible is not talking about Neolithic man. The Bible begins about 6000BC and this is why people think the earth is 6000 years old. It isn't it is about 4.5 billion years old. I hope this clears up a few questions.

That was the Toronto Blessing and I believe it was false. I have also experienced hardship in my life and although I couldn't see it at the time, God brought me through it wonderfully, but it is only with hindsight that I can see this. The two ocassins when this happened were when I strayed from the Lord and was disobedient, I suffered for my sin and I tried everything in my power but to no avail, then one day I got down on my knees and cried out in agony, "Not my will Lord, but thy will be done" and I surrendered myself to him completely to do with whatever he wanted. I got up and I was filled with a sense of peace and after that where people had been against me, I started to get letters from my solicitor with little bits of good news for a change and eventually everything worked out in a way I could never have done it. But I had to give myself over to him unreservedly and that was hard and apart from one other time, for which I have paid the penalty and rightly so, I have always tried to be obedient to his word. I wish you well my friend.

There are several gifts of the Spirit, see 1 Corinthians chapter 12. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal . For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom ; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit ; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; to another the working of miracles ; to another prophecy ; to another discerning of spirits ; to another divers kinds of tongues ; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will . For the body is one, and has many members,

It is a massive subject and it is far too complex to deal with in a few words, but the Jews knew Jesus right enough and I did post evidence of that from Jewish sources. We have to face it that people do invent religions, and gods and we only have to look at the Greek gods for example, the other thing is that the Jews also worshipped false gods and graven images, the Golden Calf for example and did not always worship the true God unfortunatly. The sources I gave are genuine and that web site you pointed to is misleading. Just as an aside would you believe me if I said Robin Hood was genuine? Have a look at my web site here. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ God bless.

That's like asking why are people golfers, or why are they historians. For someone who doesn't play golf or is into history it might seem silly to walk miles hitting a small ball with a long stick! What sort of fetish is THAT! I think people who criticise religion do so in ignorance and in their ignorance they get the wrong idea. I was never into history but the more I learn about medieval England the more fascinated I become and it is the same with theology. The deeper you go the more fascinating it becomes and the more you learn the more it gels into a cohesive whole. People can talk about football for hours but until you go to matches, and play it for yourself you can never "know" football like a footballer and the idea of twenty-two grown men chasing a bag of wind around will seem forever silly, untill you become a footballer and then you see it like you have never seen it before. All I can say to people is to get off the sideline and into the changing room, become a Christian, study the Bible, pray, open up your heart to God and a whole new world will enter in. All the best.

I happened across this site by accident. I think most people at the time of Jesus were illiterate and even today if it wasn't for the media I doubt we would have much of a record and Samuel Pepys diary is an example of how scarce written records were even in his day. However I hope this helps a little bit: