(May 16, 2012 at 8:08 pm)padraic Wrote:Quote:A person does not show up with a new religious teaching that nobody ever heard of before and attempts to spread it all around the world before he's even had the chance to establish it among his very own people
Oh for fuck sake!
Jesus was a pious Jew. The religion he taught was traditional Judaism; you had to be a Jew or convert to belong to his sect. That tiny Jewish sect was de-Jewified only after Jesus' death,especially by Paul,to become "Christianity". There are no new ideas,moral codes or theology in Christianity.
I did not know another book had been written about Jesus, the one I read tells of a way for all to see God through the death and resurrection of Jesus, with no work involved.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.