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Check out the late Ron Wyatt work. He is an amateur who found many things that prove the Bible story is real. There is lot of YouTube video about him that people don’t give him credited for his findings. Ron give GOD the glory for his findings.

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Well this post isn't about the Bible although there was an element of theology evident in all these characters. I have studied it though and my view is that it's a Greek work. With later Roman embellishments.

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This is an interesting exploration, but I'd want to see deeper analysis of historical facts that cast doubt on existence. I'm open to it, but surely there are historical records that would aide the case.

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I've written on Napoleon in more detail, I might drag it out. The Caesar one is not really mine and I know little about it other than that coins don't really back him up (and that questioning this gets you banned on numismatic forums). As for Alexander there are no sources from his time and his supposed images on coins & so on from that period look very much like one of the Greek gods, Hermes if I remember correctly. I'm a bit skeptical on the whole Macedon thing to be honest.

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What about Noah, Abraham, Jesus and the like? What do you reckon?

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Wrong (imho). Sumerian (and potentially even older). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN0pd_8yTLU

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Yes they do have Sumerian, Mesopotamian and Egyptian roots. But it is through a Greek lens.

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For example the story of Noah is via Deucalion rather than Atrahasis.

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https://vridar.org/2010/05/01/comparing-the-evidence-for-jesus-with-other-ancient-historical-persons/. For Alexander the Great we have coins and other epigraphy as primary evidence. For Julius Caesar, we also have coins and monuments with relevant epigraphy. For Napoleon we have of course https://www.ranker.com/review/waterloo/2363540?l=354475

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I've had some stoushes with vridar in the past....

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Sep 15, 2023·edited Sep 16, 2023Author

I think that he banned me for pointing out the similarities of the history of Samos with that which ended up in the Bible. He's happy to date Christianity to 325 CE* but not so happy to look into the Greek origins of Moses.

* Nicaea Conference 325 CE to knock out the official text, as approved by Rome, of Christianity. (I was one year out in first version of this post). And if this interests you then you should look at the Council of Whitby as well. Almost a carbon copy of Nicaea.

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Orthodoxy strikes deep/into your life it will creep/it starts when you're always afraid/Devil gonna take it all away.

https://youtu.be/oUgX3sOtlkA?t=1

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BTW LOL at Napoleon's sources.

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Russian cinema. Surely reliable. Not Hollywood.

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