RE: What are your answers?
August 25, 2011 at 3:30 pm
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2011 at 3:32 pm by Captain Scarlet.)
(August 25, 2011 at 2:46 pm)salty Wrote: According to the Bible, Jesus was among us, living and teaching, even healing people at one time, and still many did not believe he was the Messiah. Christians believe that the Bible is God's word and his testimony of what happened, what is happening and what will happen in the end. The Bible is our way of following the real Jesus by studying and acting in accordance with the Holy Spirit.According to scholarship the real Jesus was a pious Jew who inherited an apocalyptic Jewish cult from his mentor John the bapitiser, after John was beheaded by the son of Herod. He went around proclaiming a wholly Jewish message equivalent to the end of the world is nigh with his brothers (also pious Jews). He was credited with healing, interestingly casting out demons, which seems a little ineffective as a treatment for physical disorders. He never claimed to be a god.
The bible is an extremely poor source of validating truth claims, this has been proven time and time again even by very motivated xtian and Jewish archaeologists and historians. Apart from portraying a terrifying message and giving upteen laws on how to run bronze age villages, it is an inconsistent and political document, and if it is the revealed word of a god, we really drew the god short straw in our universe. The only part of the bible authored by a god directly is the 10 commandments, and if you are a god and creator of billions of galaxies each with billions of stars, the only things you want to say to your creatures is: 1 don't call me names and love only me, me, me, 2 don't do shit on Saturdays, 3 dont do that stealing, lying and killing stuff 4 oh yeah and dont cock an enviously glance at your neighbors donkey. Name 1 thing in the bible that could only have come from a god, and cannot be the scribblings of bronze and iron age men.
The rest of your sermon is similarly flawed.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
