Origins of the Christianity
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Origins of the Christianity
and veracity of the facts mentioned in the Bible
To be objective, when knowing whether actors of the Bible did really exist or not, consists in studying documents and questioning scholars on these issues. But here is the problem : because themselves differ in their opinion, we have some good reason to doubt about the veracity of the facts we are reading in the Bible - at least when the documents produced by archeology, philology or literature don’t exist so that to prove it, or when they give an answer that does not match what we read in the Bible.
And here is the key point : what do we know, about these events, when information does not originate from the Bible itself. In other worlds, what do we know about the historical existence of figures like Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, David, Salomon, and later on, Jesus and his twelve apostles, by studying scholars who are here historians? Do the latter have found, by reading the annals of the kings, or by reading the documentation produced by their people, any evidence that Abraham did really lived in Ur or in the southern part of Mesopotamia at the beginning of his life; or any evidence that Joseph, the son of Jacob, was indeed a vizier or Pharaoh in Egypt; or any evidence that Moses has released, in Egypt, and on behalf of Yahweh, more than half a million of slaves from Jewish origin before leading them towards a promised land they will reach after 40 years in the desert; or any evidence that David have founded an empire which is supposed to have spread from Egypt to Mesopotamia at the time of Salomon; or any evidence, finally, that Jesus, before being three years, was taken into Egypt by Joseph and Mary so that to avoid the killing of an Herod who had decided to kill all the children of this age because he knew that the future king of the Jews (whose name is Jesus) was one of them, and because he was afraid to be overthrown by him in the future ?
On all these topics, and despite the very hope aroused, in the environment of the Church, by a biblical archaeology whose Father Lagrange was a precursor, we haven’t...