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

[jenny1972]

I asked once what "good things" the bible teaches Christians that are not fairly obvious to a well balanced atheist who has never even heard of the bible. I did a whole thread about it, and the answer was nothing.

yes you can learn how to be good without picking up a Bible people learn behavior from parents and other people .

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Almost all of the best lessons of the bible are taken from other sources. you can get "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" from Confucius. Give to the poor is a basic goody good lesson, though Jesus took it to the extreme because he thought the world was about to end. Don't steal or kill, and be nice to your neighbors. Something every society needs to function.

A funny one is don't covet, because that's pretty much a tennant of capitalism. Keeping up with the Joneses, I think it's called.

yes its much more in line with socialism than capitalism . jesus did not invent functional society but was addressing the dysfunction that existed during his lifetime just like there are things wrong in society now that need fixed there were problems in his time .