Scourge of God
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But the meaning of the Gospel accounts isn't in question, so why are you debating it as if it were?
Well it sure is in the link listed by Seditious, who apparently did not hear you the first time. That guy is using this word study of Isaiah to argue against the virgin birth, to argue for "a completely human saviour", and in a very nasaly voice at that.
If the debate is just about Isaiah and doesn't concern Jesus at all, then what's the motivation for all this debate?
Really?
In my opinion that's all a bunch of crap.
First of all, Constantine had nothing to do with the setting of the canon. Also, you can't refer to the text before the canon was set as the "Bible". It's a term used to describe the set canon, not the collection of texts that were around before the canon was officially decided upon. It's obviously not a term of that time; the word "Bible" literally just means "book" (the greek word is Biblion).
Isn't Christianity just rehashed Egyptian religion.
Constantine may not have, but it is a historical fact (if anything is a historical fact) that the bible was canonized by government officials: no-one that had any right what-so-ever to do so. It is also a fact that there were many other canons arbitrarily thrown out during this canonization, many of which are actually mentioned in the included texts. In Christianity, real Christianity (as it started), there are a bunch of random, often contradicting, texts, and no bible. Also, all of the new testament texts written were written long after the [reputed] death of Christ, in many cases life-times afterwards. All in all the bible we have now is 99.9% certain to be a load of entirely human-corrupted texts, nothing more.
Where are you getting your information? Wherever it's from, you need to drop it. That was a popular view is serious historical research say....100-150 years ago. You say that "the bible was canonized by government officials". Where do you get that from? Irenaeus refers to the four gospels in the mid 2nd century, and there's plenty of other information to contradict that completely un-historical view.