RE: I wouldn’t be a Christian
November 11, 2018 at 12:31 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2018 at 12:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Glaring omission, on my part, up above..the type of savior figure in christian theology is entirely -absent- in jewish theology despite it's common presence in both the pagan beliefs that were known to early christians and common globally but unknown to them. In fact, the idea of a savior god in the flesh is categorically unacceptable. God is not and cannot be a man. So we may as well add that wrinkle. They didn't get the christian idea of a savior from the OT.
The general supposition is that they "mistranslated" the ot..but they only seem to have done that -after- there was already a christian religion. As if they, like modern christer apologists, were desperately searching for something in the "historical records" that backed up their inane claims well after the fact.
"Is too! the same old god, which is a real god™, we found a story about him in this dusty old book..which sortoff looks like the same thing, if you look at it sideways and hit yourself over the head with a rock until it comes into focus"
The general supposition is that they "mistranslated" the ot..but they only seem to have done that -after- there was already a christian religion. As if they, like modern christer apologists, were desperately searching for something in the "historical records" that backed up their inane claims well after the fact.
"Is too! the same old god, which is a real god™, we found a story about him in this dusty old book..which sortoff looks like the same thing, if you look at it sideways and hit yourself over the head with a rock until it comes into focus"
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