was jezus nailed to the cross with 30 nails
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If you'd quoted the start of that sentence...
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I'd suggest that rather than anyone claiming that 30 nails were used it's more likely to be a multiple case of "No, MY nail is authentic, yours is a fake".
It is silly to discuss these details when the historicity of Jesus himself is debatable.
I don't think there's much doubt a man called Jesus lived at that time at that place according to contemporary records left Romans. Most scholars accept this, even Muslims. Whether any of his legends are true though is another question.
There is quite a lot of doubt about that. The text in Josephus is considered a later addition, not authentic.
My norse god has a hammer. Coincidence?
To be honest, I don't know the texts personally but I've not heard of a historian casting any serious doubt on it. I would have thought the Jews would have disproven it if they could. Still, I'm sure we'll never know definatively but the circumstantial evidence is fairly strong.
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Already covered the bases. Not much of value outside the bible, and of course that by itself as evidence is a bit circular.
I have read nothing in the bible that mentions a number of nails used in the execution of Jesus.
So i would say the source for this 30 nails claim comes from a tradition of men.
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their not they are using real science and not fairy tales from the bible. we know from things we have found that the romans used 3 nails when putting people up on the lumber
Actually there's exactly zero contemporary evidence for Jesus, Mohammad, Mosses, Hercules, and Mythra.
I was not talking about Romans using nails as a tradition of men. I was talking about the claim that they used 30 nails as a tradition of men.
I believe they used nails. That’s scriptural. And i would say they used 3 large ones too. But this 30 nails business has no support from the bible.
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Try reading the thread.
There is no claim that 30 nails were used.
There never has been that claim.
Actually this is not correct. Mohammad is definitely a historical figure. The supernatural stories are legend but the man clearly existed.
Jesus walks into a hotel and slams a handfull of nails on the main desk and asks, "can you put me up for the night?" yuk yuk
If you have the citations for contemporary evidence of Mohammad's existence please post it, I think everyone would be interested.
AFAIK the earliest use for the word Mohammad in a religious sense is as a Title for Jesus (found on early Syrian coins). More than likely Mohammad the protagonist was a literary creation based on a misunderstanding of basic Aramaic. Think of it like this. 300 years in the future a Christian sect is running around yelling God is Great and Lincoln was His Prophet. 500 years in the future there's a new name for this "religion" and enough back-padding to the myth to make a Muslim blush