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Robert Taylor

A regular succession of the most learned and intelligent of the Christian Fathers, from and in the apostolic age, steadily maintained, that Christ never had any real existence as a man; that he was merely a phantom or hobgoblin, and that all the business of his crucifixion and miracles took place only in a vision. These, from the Greek word, which expresses their sentiment, are called the Docetæ, or Docetian Fathers, as opposed to the Ebionite, or Beggar Heretics, who maintained the contrary hypothesis, that Jesus had a real existence.

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genius robert taylor

There can be no doubt, that had the objections of Porphyry, Hierocles, Celsus, and other enemies of the Christian faith been permitted to come down to us, the PLAGIARISM of the Christian scriptures, from previously existing Pagan documents, is the specific charge that would have been brought against them.

genius robert taylor

17. Why should his divinity have ever been dreamed of, if his real existence, as a man, could ever have been ascertained?

genius robert taylor

The Unitarian editors of the New Testament, strain every nerve to get the whole account of Herod seeking the young child to destroy him, and slaying all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, (Matt. ii. 16,) whom “God made to glorify him by their deaths,” (Church of England Collect,) ejected from the canonical scriptures.

genius robert taylor

That the name of CHRISHNA, and the general outline of his story, were long anterior to the birth of our Saviour, and probably to the time of Homer, we know very certainly.”—Asiatic researches, Vol. 1. p. 259. I ask the reader then to direct his researches to those researches! I ask the Christian to say, whether he can suspect, that this Christian writer would have spelt the name CHRISHNA rather than Krishna, or Krishnu, with a base design of producing an apparent resemblance where there was none in reality?

genius robert taylor

7.“ It is notorious that forged writings, under the names of the Apostles, were in circulation almost from the apostolic age.—See 2 Thess. ii. 2. 7. “The tracing of a writing up to the apostolic age, would therefore, afford no presumption of its genuineness: the name of an Apostle is no proof that the writing is not the composition of an impostor.

genius robert taylor

It is well enough known, that in the early ages of Christianity, many silly and fraudulent persons composed fictitious narratives of the life and actions of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, and gave them out as the writings of Peter, Nicodemus, Thomas, Barnabas, and even Judas Iscariot.