If There Had Been DNA Testing 2,000 Years Ago, There Would Be No Christianity

That title is on a Face Book post making the rounds. It so fits the way skeptics look at this religion stuff it is a hoot. We don't know for certain the statement is true, it just seems like it is true.

For example, what if there were DNA testing that could establish with a high probability Jesus was, or was not, the son of Mary?  Or, what if it were proven Jesus was actually the son of Joseph? If today this was possible to test and Catholic hierarchy was given the opportunity to have the DNA tested, would they approve or not? I would advise not to take the chance. If the entire story of Christmas goes down what is left?

To atheists, it really does not matter who the mother of some itinerant preacher was. If there was such a person we still do not believe in either spiritual gods nor man gods.

There are so many other characters in Bible stories that could be checked out. Did Jesus have a brother "James?" And, did his linage of Jesus go back to the area of Nazareth or to some entirely different part of the world?

The writer Paul's ethnic linage could be compared to the story claimed in the Bible. Same for the story of Moses. Today people are often surprised by what they learn about their roots from DNA. Maybe there would have been surprises if we could take reading of people 2,000 years ago?

The same thing would be true if the tales of other religions were tested.

I have always thought the Greek gods were a better class of god than the Christian. When a religion claims to have had a god who walked the earth all the evidence of the person needs to be destroyed. There is virtually no surviving evidence of a Jesus.

Christians need to hope this is how it remains. Without evidence they can continue to make claims of people and events far outside the realm of science or reality.

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  1. little helperAugust 11, 2019 at 7:51 PM

    "Don't know"; "If there were" ; "What if"; "If today"; "Could be"; "Maybe"; "would be"; "If we could". - - - Strange terms for one looking for absolutes.

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