"Gabriel's Revelation" in the news today...?

There were several "messiahs" prior to Jesus. The "dying god-man" motif occurred in several different cultures from that time period. Nothing in the bible is original.

"However, such a contentious reading of the 87-line tablet depends on creative interpretation of a smudged passage, making it the latest entry in the woulda/coulda/shoulda category of possible New Testament artifacts; they are useful to prove less-spectacular points and to stir discussion on the big ones, but probably not to settle them nor shake anyone's faith."

"the Gabriel tablet does indicate a very rare instance of the idea that a messiah might suffer — a notion introduced in Judaic thought centuries before by the prophet Isaiah but which supposedly went out of style by Jesus' time"

Jesus matched the prophecies from Isaiah.

I don't think it matters if the Jesus story is completely unique, Messiahs came in a dime a dozen those days. What matter is if Jesus is who He claimed He was. The apostles going to their deaths over witnessing a resurrection seems to indicate it happened.

that's just my take.

lost.eu/21618

edit to Lone:

pickachu's obnoxious Christ mess

http://www.tektoonics.com/etc/parody/pocemon/pikac...