(April 7, 2013 at 3:38 am)Mr_Dew7 Wrote:Quote:Aw C'MON now! The passage explicitly says there were Christians preaching a spiritual messiah. You're avoiding the issue here, which is that it should be impossible to spew such nonsense about a spiritual messiah when Jesus was allegedly just on earth.
I don't mean to interrupt here, though I would like to ask a few questions. I haven't been keeping up with the conversation so far, so please forgive me for jumping into it in the middle. Are you talking of the Bible? And if so, where does it say that Jesus was just on earth?
Last time I checked, the orthodox view is that in the 1st century B.C.E, there was an apocalyptic preacher going from town to town performing miracles who was said to be the messiah i.e. Jesus.
Quote: And would not the spiritual messiah that you are speaking of be the Messiah Jesus after He was ressurected from the dead? Wouldn't it make sense that the once a being of such power would be ressurected into the spirit and not back into flesh, especially since it was the will of God to bring Him (the Messiah) up into heaven to be at His right hand after a short period of time on earth in a spiritual form. I am just confused here, and if you could take the time, it would be helpful. Thanks!
What I'm saying is that it seems some Christians in the 1st century were preaching a messiah that never came to earth in the first place. He always was (and presumably is) in the heavenly realms.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle