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Jesus - not even a nice guy?

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Jesus - not even a nice guy?
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RE: Jesus - not even a nice guy?
June 7, 2013 at 12:10 pm
I would like to take this moment to say that you weren't kidding when you said you were long winded.
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RE: Jesus - not even a nice guy?
June 7, 2013 at 12:19 pm
Just between you are me Savannahw - its from the book I'm writing. Trying to gauge reactions - but lets make that our secret.
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RE: Jesus - not even a nice guy?
June 7, 2013 at 12:24 pm
well... I like it for what its worth.
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RE: Jesus - not even a nice guy?
June 7, 2013 at 12:34 pm
(June 7, 2013 at 12:22 am)max-greece Wrote: One of the things I get from anyone and everyone when Jesus is brought up is that basically whatever he was, if he existed he was a really decent person well ahead of his time.

I have to say that much of the evidence from the gospel doesn't actually back up this moderate claim.

the question begs....compared to who? God?
Quis ut Deus?
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RE: Jesus - not even a nice guy?
June 7, 2013 at 12:49 pm
[Image: FUjesus.jpg]
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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RE: Jesus - not even a nice guy?
June 7, 2013 at 1:08 pm
(June 7, 2013 at 12:34 pm)ronedee Wrote:
(June 7, 2013 at 12:22 am)max-greece Wrote: One of the things I get from anyone and everyone when Jesus is brought up is that basically whatever he was, if he existed he was a really decent person well ahead of his time.

I have to say that much of the evidence from the gospel doesn't actually back up this moderate claim.

the question begs....compared to who? God?

Obviously he was nicer than the God of the OT - but so was....well.......just about 99% of the people that have lived since.
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RE: Jesus - not even a nice guy?
June 7, 2013 at 1:16 pm (This post was last modified: June 7, 2013 at 1:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I disagree, at least the OT god had the decency to wait until you had -done- something before he did whatever the hell was on his mind to do anyway...and after having done so left your corpse alone.
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RE: Jesus - not even a nice guy?
June 7, 2013 at 1:27 pm
True but he did get involved in some seriously dodgy real estate deals, turned a woman into salt for the crime of taking a peek, flooding the entire planet and a bit of genocide on the side.

I probably let those aspects of his personality blind me to the reality.....Wink
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RE: Jesus - not even a nice guy?
June 7, 2013 at 2:11 pm
(June 7, 2013 at 12:08 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:Christ would most likely have been a general laborer

And obviously Drippy you have not absorbed the implications of that?

And the implications would be that there should have been buildings, walls, roads, or the like that twenty-something Jesus would have had a hand in constructing?
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RE: Jesus - not even a nice guy?
June 7, 2013 at 2:20 pm
No, that he would have been of a social class even lower than the peasantry... which at least had land.

Jesus would have been more like a day laborer...you know, the kind that fine xtians want to throw out of the country.

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