Very interesting story about a newly discovered stone tablet containing some stories that are very similar to events from the life of Jesus. The thing is, the tablet was written a few decades before the birth of Jesus. Ooops. Now, this could be described as a very accurate prophecy but they are actually subtly different stories. Its easier to imagine that the story of the real Jesus was elaborated along the lines of such contemporary literature than that its some huge coincidence.
This is not at all inconsistent with the writings of Tom Harpur who, in his later years, has discovered other similar evidence from Egyptian writings. His belief is that Jesus may not have historically existed in the way we think but that the stories we know were reworked versions of many ancient spiritual stories floating around at the time. If you are interested in that pick up Mr. Harpur's fantastic book "The Pagean Christ". I'll write a blog about that soon, its a great book, a challenging one, but great.
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