(September 8, 2013 at 10:31 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Not the way the Mandaeans saw it!
They don't count. Clearly, they were crazy. I mean, their poster boy tells them "No, I'm not the Messiah. That guy over there, Jesus, he's the one you're looking for". And yet, they still revered him as the Messiah to this very day. It's almost like they wouldn't take his word for it or something. ...unless the Gospel account of him isn't true.
Just like the Docetics. They were devout Christians of the 1st century that ignored an obvious historical reality to make up fantasies about Jesus that he was only an apparition. As if there weren't relatives and neighbors of Jesus who could have set them straight. ...unless of course Jesus started out as parable and then an apparition and then a flesh-and-blood person.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
