Even in Biblical Times People Asserted Christ Never Existed
The whole purpose of the brief 2nd book of John is to admonish followers not to listen to
the many people who were telling them the simple truth that Jesus never existed. The
Catholic Bible dates the 2nd book of John to 90 A.D. Thus apparently it was a big problem
only a few decades after the alleged time of Jesus. Read now the words of this book:
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2 John 1:7-11
"Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have
gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded
fully. Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not
have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone
comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome
him. Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work."
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Thus, soon after Jesus allegedly existed, were so many people claiming that he didn't
exist. And rather than approach these unbelievers in a rational manner and present them
with overwhelming evidence that Jesus really had existed just a short time ago, and all
the miraculous things said to have happened really did happen, the writer instead
admonishes his readers to stay away from these people. "Do not take him into your house
or welcome him." The writer stigmatizes these people as "the deceiver" and "the
antichrist" who do "wicked work," and further stigmatizes anyone who should listen to
them.
Thus, even very early on, whenever 2 John was written, which the Catholic Bible dates
as being 90 A.D., there was a big problem of many people saying Jesus never existed. And
the author's chosen way to refute these claims was by administering admonition and fear
into the hearts of the believers.
The only way to maintain a falsehood is to stigmatize the truth to such an extent that
it is heresy to even listen to it.
Robert Taylor stated it eloquently:
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affect to deny the existence of such an individual as Alexander the Great, or of Napoleon
Bonaparte, and so set at defiance the evidence of all facts but such as our senses have
attested. It being quite forgotten that the existence of Alexander and Napoleon was not
miraculous, and that there never was on earth one other real personage whose existence as
a real personage was denied and disclaimed even as soon as ever it was asserted, as was
the case with respect to the assumed personality of
Christ.”1
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