(November 13, 2022 at 10:47 pm)HankMoody316 Wrote: I left Christianity due to "Revelation in Mormonism" upon realizing that Christianity is a false religion.

Leaving Christianity for Mormonism is like swapping a blister on your toe for a blister on your thumb. At the end of the day, it’s still a blister.

Boru

How can you say Christianity is a false religion, but Mormonism isn't? Mormonism is based on Christianity, so if the latter is false, the former is as well.

(November 14, 2022 at 5:47 pm)Ahriman Wrote:

(November 14, 2022 at 5:16 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew.

No he wasn't.

I beg to differ, but, in any case, many modern scholars are of the opinion that Jesus and his earliest followers were fully Jewish. This view is very mainstream and is hardly "moronic".

(November 14, 2022 at 5:16 pm)Jehanne Wrote:

(November 14, 2022 at 5:01 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Really?  Your inner moron is showing.

Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew.

(November 14, 2022 at 6:00 pm)Jehanne Wrote:

(November 14, 2022 at 5:47 pm)Ahriman Wrote: No he wasn't.

I beg to differ, but, in any case, many modern scholars are of the opinion that Jesus and his earliest followers were fully Jewish.  This view is very mainstream and is hardly "moronic".

Jesus was Aramaic.

(November 14, 2022 at 6:07 pm)Ahriman Wrote:

(November 14, 2022 at 6:00 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I beg to differ, but, in any case, many modern scholars are of the opinion that Jesus and his earliest followers were fully Jewish.  This view is very mainstream and is hardly "moronic".

Jesus was Aramaic.

No. that's the language that Jesus spoke; Jesus was a Hebrew.

(November 14, 2022 at 6:10 pm)Jehanne Wrote:

(November 14, 2022 at 6:07 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Jesus was Aramaic.

No. that's the language that Jesus spoke; Jesus was a Hebrew.

He definitely does not look Jewish in any of the most popular depictions of him. Why is that?

(November 14, 2022 at 6:17 pm)Ahriman Wrote:

(November 14, 2022 at 6:10 pm)Jehanne Wrote: No. that's the language that Jesus spoke; Jesus was a Hebrew.

He definitely does not look Jewish in any of the most popular depictions of him. Why is that?

You are SO funny!! (Well, sort of.)

(November 14, 2022 at 6:17 pm)Ahriman Wrote: He definitely does not look Jewish in any of the most popular depictions of him. Why is that?

People create gods in their own image.

(November 14, 2022 at 6:23 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:

(November 14, 2022 at 6:17 pm)Ahriman Wrote: He definitely does not look Jewish in any of the most popular depictions of him. Why is that?

People create gods in their own image.

If you haven't seen it, watch the movie Saved! ("Of course Jesus was white.")