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r3x29yz4a said:
I read in the book Battle for God (which chronicles the extremist factions of the big 3 religions over the years) that many theologians (hard to word to spell, and I think I got it wrong) believe that some parts of the Jesus story were lifted from the Moses story to make him more acceptable as the "chosen one" to Jews. The main thing was the whole "kill the first born baby" part of the story which is almost identical to the Moses story.



I've never heard that before.

I may be stepping onto dangerous ground with this post, but since it's been brought up, hopefully you guys will find it interesting. And I don't think it's anything our resident Biblical scholars don't already know.

If I understand correctly, the New Testament speaks of Jesus being able to raise the dead, and of the miracle of being able to feed a large amount of people with a small amount of loaves of bread, yes?

The Jewish prophets Eliyahu (Elijah) and Elishah, both performed miracles of raising people from the dead, and Elishah also performed the miracle of the loaves and the fishes.

Just thought I'd share that. Interpret as you will (I'm sure you guys will anyway.)

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