/lit/ - Literature

>>6722251
>Is it just a compilation of ancient jew bed stories?

The Ancient Testament yes, although it's mostly based on older eastern myths.

The New Testament was written by Romans with a deep Hellenic culture. See pic related

>Who are the apostles?
A satiric depiction of the leaders of the first century Jewish messianic insurrection

>What is the relation between the Christian Bible, the Tanakh, and the Quran?

The New Testament's authors lifted a lot of their material from the Hebraic bible Greek translation, the Septuagint.The book of Daniel is especially important, Jesus' character is built as a messianic fulfillment of Daniel's prophecies, with the whole thing completed in the 70s according to Josephus' writings. The point is to legitimize the Roman mass-murder of Jews during the war, and the destruction of the Temple. As for the Quran, it's harder to tell, it's easily the most cryptic of all the religious works. The original ones were written without diacritical signs, so who knows what it truly conveys?

>Who and how established the biblical "canon"?

The emperor Constantine, founder of the second Flavian dynasty, during the first Council of Nicaea. They put in the canon what they wanted, and discarded what was ''heretical'' (ie from a different school of thought)

>And why the hell there are so many protestant churches?
Heresy, heresy everywhere. People don't think alike, hence they create different religious institutions to be with like-minded people. The Church of England, for example, was created as part of the failed attempt at English absolutism. The crown dismantled the monasteries, and took from the Pope the power to grant divorces, because Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife, a wish the Pope didn't grant him. Each sect has its own history and reasons to exist.

>Why is there an "eastern orthodox church" in the first place?
A very long story, that begins again with Constantine and the shift of Roman power from West to East. Look into the ''Byzantine'' empire's history and the schism of 1054, the fall of each pentarchy (except Rome), etc.

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>>6719318
Now read Josephus, who wrote that all this ''happened'', and you'll understand that the Son of Man is Titus Flavius Vespasianus. Christians worship some long dead Roman warlord.

The worst thing you could do is make them read this book OP. Then they would learn they've been worshiping the whole time some long dead Roman emperor without knowing it.

Jesus' ministry is a typological parody of Titus Flavius' campaign through Galilee and Judea. It justifies his mass murder of Jews and the destruction of their metropolis and Temple.

Christians are worshiping History's most successful troll. It sheds new light on the New Testament's literary merit, and the gullibility of men everywhere.

>>5844660
Not at all, as Jesus is a literary character, an allegory, not an historical person. People can speculate all they want, but there are no material proof of the existence of Jesus.

The official literary corpus written about him thought, typologically represent him as the prophetic forerunner of Titus Flavius, a Roman emperor. The most logical theory is that Christianity is the reformed Flavian imperial cult.

Pic related, this book details the typology linking Jesus to Titus.