(May 25, 2016 at 9:35 pm)Jehanne Wrote: The Romans can and did execute any non-Roman citizens "on a whim". What happened is that Jesus, who was born in Nazareth, was a Jewish apocalyptic preacher who "prophesied" that "the Son of Man" would come to destroy the Roman empire. Some of his followers in Galilee encouraged him to take his message down south to Jerusalem, where he got arrested by the Romans after causing a ruckus in the Temple; after a brief examination, he was sentenced to execution, likely, with the approval of the Jewish authorities. He and Pilate, the Govenor, probably never even met.
Where did you dig up this bunch of falsehoods, I mean really the disciples talk Jesus into anything, that's a laugh. The gospels tell us that Jesus did the will of the Father, over and over and over. Jesus said, I do the will of the Father and not my own, so He certainly wasn't going to listen to His disciples. He actually rebuked the when they spoke out of the will of the Father.
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God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.