The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work

[TheRocketSurgeon]

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Redbeard has already said what i would have wanted to say, on this. I do worry about you. The fact that you are a Bible Idolator, who think that the Word is something that must be conformed to over testable reality, indicates serious problems in your life, to me.

Why do you think a cult leader has to still be physically alive and somewhere currently on earth? The whole point of the story told by his disciples is that he's not really  dead, but came back to life and went to heaven but will return "soon".

Like David Koresh, Jesus built a cult of followers and predicted that he would be executed by the authorities, and he was. My point isn't that Koresh is special, it's the opposite: the basic concept of the cult is the same, anywhere you look. Except you don't look, because you have been trained not to look by your religious teachers. They teach that it is a good thing to shut your mind down and "just believe". That is a mark of a cult. They teach you that your cult leader was God incarnate, a divine messenger, even though he was physically human. That is a mark of a cult. They teach you that you are so inherently flawed that you own brain cannot possibly figure out The Truth™, but only to accept it. That is the mark of a cult. When others tell you that you are talking like a cultist, you defensively proclaim the strength of your faith instead of examining the lies you have been told-- like about the "prophecy" about Tyre.

Cult. Cult. Cult.

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Insults, Cults, and a miss understanding of the Bible, Christianity, and history. Is this your defense?

Where is Jesus' body if He is dead? What happened to it and how do you know this?
If Jesus didn't died then how did he survive crucifixion?
Why do you assume that I don't look? What teachers do you think I have? What is your evidence that I have teachers that tell me not to look?
Was this the Christianity your grew up in?
Do you actually believe what you wrote? (this is not trying to be an insult but an honest question.)

No, it's not my "defense". It's my offense. Because you're the one coming here with insane propositions about magical beings/events, and spouting cult mantras. And I do understand history and the Bible. I'm just not stating it in a way you're accustomed to hearing, and you don't like my answers.

Likely Jesus was buried in a mass grave like the traitorous criminal that he was, according to the Romans (that's one of two ways they disposed of crucifixion victims, the other being a roadside stake "to set an example", as with the killing of Spartacus and his followers, according to that story). I don't know what happened to the body; that's the point, no one does. The stories that cropped up later aren't evidence of anything but storytelling. 

I don't know where you get "Jesus didn't died" [sic] from what I wrote, because I'm saying that he DID die, and his apostles came up with a bullshit story about it to say he's not really dead, and will be back "soon".

I say you do not look because you have been trained by the culture of your church, subtly and over years, to reject anything that does not fit the presupposed idea. I have explained the ways, above, in which what you are saying matches that of what cultists say. You yourself have made comments about rejecting evidence that doesn't fit the Bible, which makes you what I call a "Bible Idolator", unwilling to even seriously consider  that it's just a book written by people who didn't have the knowledge we have today, and might be completely mistaken. My evidence that you have teachers that tell you not to look and what to say is that you are saying every thing I used to say when I was like you, 22 years ago, and those teachers taught me to ignore "Man's Knowledge" and reject "the World", and to "lean not on my own understanding". You sound just like my entire social circle, back then, including myself.

Yes, I believe every word I wrote. I pride myself on intellectual honesty and integrity. I think a religion is just a cult with more members, and we have just spent so long with religious domination of our culture that it's hard for people to realize that the things they are saying sound insane  from a rational perspective. That's why I tried showing you what it looked like when I plugged "Ahura Mazda" and "Mithras" (Zoroastrian/Persian god and son of god) into the your statement, before. I wanted you to stop and look at it with fresh eyes, instead of just repeating a phrase you'd picked up from your religious socialization (teachings).