My friends and I tried to dig our way into hell once. We got about three feet, and got bored.
I believed Jesus and God were seperate people too. I mean he's the guy's son, and there are several instances where he acts like they're seperate people. I'm still kind of confused when people say they're the same guy, though there is a verse or two that says so.
I believed Jesus was the only person who was born of a virgin, and rose from the dead after he died. Finding out there are older stories of people like that was the final nail in the coffin of my belief. It's like if I'm going to worship a guy who was born of a virgin, started a religion, and died for our sins, I'd be worshiping Krishna. He's from an older, active religion.
I used to believe Jesus was white, and that there were people in ancient Palestine with names like John and Luke.
I also remember back when they started teaching us about metaphors, there was this poem that started off with a spider, a wasp, and a fly, then suddenly shifted to talking about believers and Adam and Eve. The metaphor being that a nonbeliever is like the helpless fly, while the believer is the wasp that has some defense, despite still being stuck in the web.
I believed that everyone believed Jesus was real. Any non believer was just someone who didn't want to follow him. Like a rebellious child not obeying their parents. The bible even says as much. It's not as settled as that, though, obviously.
I believed Jesus and God were seperate people too. I mean he's the guy's son, and there are several instances where he acts like they're seperate people. I'm still kind of confused when people say they're the same guy, though there is a verse or two that says so.
I believed Jesus was the only person who was born of a virgin, and rose from the dead after he died. Finding out there are older stories of people like that was the final nail in the coffin of my belief. It's like if I'm going to worship a guy who was born of a virgin, started a religion, and died for our sins, I'd be worshiping Krishna. He's from an older, active religion.
I used to believe Jesus was white, and that there were people in ancient Palestine with names like John and Luke.
I also remember back when they started teaching us about metaphors, there was this poem that started off with a spider, a wasp, and a fly, then suddenly shifted to talking about believers and Adam and Eve. The metaphor being that a nonbeliever is like the helpless fly, while the believer is the wasp that has some defense, despite still being stuck in the web.
I believed that everyone believed Jesus was real. Any non believer was just someone who didn't want to follow him. Like a rebellious child not obeying their parents. The bible even says as much. It's not as settled as that, though, obviously.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
