Christianity and morals

[Pandas United]

Would have definitely helped to clear some things up though, eh?

You could say that about anything. I find the four gospels to be adequate.

We live in a what again?

Fallen world.

It would help to add credibility to the narrative - inclusion of facts and whatnot.

Another argument from silence. You are nitpicking. What about the vast amounts of facts already portrayed? Like: Mary's visitation to Elizabeth, date of Mary being found with child, birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, Circumcision of Jesus being 8 days after birth, their flight into Egypt, returning to Nazareth... etc.

You can read more about what we know about Mary here if you want-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mothe...references

Strangely humans are not (immaterial) - images are, of course...very material - by any meaning of the word. Maybe this one is just a misunderstanding?

"Image" was a symbolic tool. The image of God refers to the "soul" or "spirit" of man; the immaterial part of man. It sets man distinct from the rest of the animal world and fits man for the dominion God intended man to have over the earth (Genesis 1:28), and enables us to know our Creator. It is a likeness mentally, morally, and socially.

Hehehe, I'm starting to like you.

Don't get too comfortable

To be fair, the gospels only require "explaining away" the rest is easy - you have fantasies, we all do. I guess that handles the gospels just as easily though, so meh.

Not as easy as you think. There's also a whole library full of historical references to Jesus in the Vatican. Gonna take a lot of explaining away.

There's a guy here that agrees that the bible is very clear on this count as well - except that he feels that it's very clear that god doesn't equally love all of us (and that god doesn't love a great many of us -at all-). I don't know, but that doesn't sound-at a glance, like we have a situation of clarity.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.. Are you referring to Calvinism?