they should make a sequel where he sees noah's flood. the time machine would of course need to be modified. "roads? where we are going, we dont need roads!" /transforms into boat
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Doc Brown wanting to see the birth of Jesus Dec 25th 0000
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It's not. Essentially all academic scholars of the New Testament agree that he was a real person. Mythicists are pretty much cranks.
That's what I was led to believe as well, Jesus types were ten a penny back then.
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Uhhhh, even disregarding the year 0000 or year 1 debate, Christian theology regard Christ as being born in 4 BC.
Is this another example of someone trying to "beat" a movie, instead of just enjoying that bit as a humorous gag playing off of the audience's knowledge of December 25th being a significant date the vast majority of the US at the time could understand, and thus laugh at the reference?
I never got any indication that Doc Brown was religious. He's undoubtedly a man of science. Back to the Future is just a comedy, man (albeit, one of my all time favorite film trilogies). It was just a joke Doc was making to the benefit of the audience.
I can't think of two other dates that mainstream audiences would instantly recognize and find humorous for that gag.
I never got any indication that Doc Brown was religious. He's undoubtedly a man of science. Back to the Future is just a comedy, man (albeit, one of my all time favorite film trilogies). It was just a joke Doc was making to the benefit of the audience.
I can't think of two other dates that mainstream audiences would instantly recognize and find humorous for that gag.
I want a sequel where Doc brown seeks an answer to the age old question "if I kill god, do I become god?"
or a -4 year old, gospel of luke gets pretty contradictory with it time periods.
Why didn't they distill oil into gasoline back in the old West? It's not exactly rocket science.
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I hate fighting games but I'd still go back in time to witness Daigo's parry live.
Even if Doc was joking, there's nothing wrong with going back to check :p
You don't want to watch an angel verbally jerk off into someone's ear.
Unless Doc mentioned that he actually went to that time period himself, he was just giving a layman's example of what the time machine is capable of.
Would you believe me if I told you I was convinced it was still controversial for some reason? I should've done my research before posting.
I wasn't trying to be edgy. Sorry.
yeah, he specifically says"say you wanted to see the birth of Jesus Christ" and then proceeds to punch in the date.
You would think Doc would modify it to power the car too. I mean he went to 2015. Electric vehicles were pretty big then. Even if not in the movie. I mean it IS a house generator for powering your home. I can't see that being wasted on just home powering. I can't believe the film makers overlooked that and went for the Texaco cameo. If they'd been forward looking enough they'd have made the Texaco have electric charging instead of gasoline. (And if they really could see the future, it'd have been Shell instead but what can you do?)
Sp hypothetically if he did modify it to power the engine too then the point still stands. They wouldn't have enough garbage to get there. I mean electric DeLoreans do exist. As do hybrids. It can be done. And Mr. Fusion could easily power it and every other vehicle in 2015 pretty much getting rid of the need for gas stations. But then again it'd probably be an upsell or conversion that costs an arm and a leg like hover conversions. But it could be done.
Also, Jesus probably was born in 4 BC, according to modern chronology.
25th december was chosen because people believed the annunciation to Mary happened in 25th of March.
25th december was chosen because people believed the annunciation to Mary happened in 25th of March.
The guy existed, we know the Romans at the time (centuries before the Christianization of the Empire) believed he did. And Romans usually got political figures' existence right.
He had 3 days in BttF 3 between Marty's arrival and his death. Why he didn't pay Tannen is another matter.
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Herod died around 4 BC, which is the most relevant point in both Matthew and Luke. Luke's reference to the census is likely referencing the wrong census.
Ok, in that case, yeah, historically we know about two things: he was born around 4 BC (although it could be 2 or 3 years earlier) and he was crucified under Pontius.
And an American audience in the most obvious way possible where everyone gets either one or both references
Lol, what are you on about? He would simply stop to get more rubbish along the way.
You're not thinking 4th dimensionally.
Could you imagine if he went back to when Christ was walking around teaching his stuff and Doc accidentally does something to change the entire course of history. Give him a few days and he'll be fading away in no time. Paradox time! He'd fade away, then history would revert like he never went back then he'd go back and destroy everything and it'd all fade away then reappear and it'd be an infinite loop forever and ever until Data noticed a pattern and finally gets the ship out of the way before they run into Frasier's ship. Wait. I think I got off track here.
In the middle of the ocean? So unless he takes the long way and goes across from Alaska to Russia he's gonna be running out pretty quickly.
He is mentioned in two history books written within 50 and 75 years of the Resurrection respectively (The Antiquities of Jews by Josephus and Annals (44 ) by Tacitus)
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It was just an excuse he gave to Martin for wanting to participate in the debauchery of Saturnalia.
Yes, and Tacitus is a very good source. He says in his work when something sounded dubious or mythic.
Religious or not, I wasn't under any impression that a man didn't exist at that time. The stories have to come from somewhere.
Immaculate conception refers to Mary's conception without original sin, not Jesus's conception without shagging.
the better example would have been "I'd have gone back to 1916 and see if Rasputin really had a big dick."
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A good question that does go unanswered, now that I think about it.
To be fair, Jesus's real name, Joshua, was pretty common around the time but I could believe that a fairly radical layperson could have acquired a group of followers with his talk of peace and love before being prosecuted to "protect the peace" and his followers snowballing
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He was specifically referred to as the Christus and "the person they called the Messiah" in the historical documents. Tacitus was a Roman senator who lived in Nero's time.
I thought it was because the Christians were trying to replace the pagan winter holidays? IIRC the Bible compares Jesus to newborn sheep and such, which are born in the spring.