(May 2, 2011 at 11:04 pm)RDK Wrote: Maybe consider what Jesus taught as being so different from the other religious entities you may have studied.
6. The wonderful concepts and ways to live that Jesus displayed are too true to come from someone who would
lie about the rest of what He taught.
Regardless of whatever Jesus taught it doesn't necessarily make his existence fact or prove that he's the son of some God. The bible could say that he taught the best things everyone ever wanted to hear, but it doesn't mean he actually existed. And I wouldn't necessarily say that people were lying about what he supposedly taught, but if they believe it, they wouldn't think that it's a lie. If they wanted to believe that they were special and had a special paradise waiting for them after death, they would spread that idea around, which frankly, isn't such a bad thing to believe in if you have a shitty life. So they spread the idea believing in it without actually knowing if it were true or not.
And don't forget that there were also a lot of things Jesus said in the bible that never came true, like when he told people that the end of the world and his second coming would occur in their lifetimes.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.