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In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
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RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
(April 29, 2025 at 4:42 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:
(April 29, 2025 at 4:23 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: How you can assert that no Christian feels the fear of death, that's beyond my ken.

Everybody naturally fears death when it comes knocking. What I reject is the idea that this fear is the reason people believe in Jesus, and that Christianity provides some kind of immunity from it.

But that is actually its basic promise. Y'know, John 3:16 and all that. Many times at major American sporting events people would be waving signs simply stating "John 3:16" and nothing more ... because nothing more need be said. "Shall not perish, but have everlasting life" is pretty clear, and apparently was thought fairly compelling.

But I notice you didn't actually answer my point -- how you might know that all of the couple of billion Christians worldwide reject fear of death as a motivation. Did you poll them?

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RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus - by Thumpalumpacus - April 29, 2025 at 6:28 pm

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