Christian Apologetics and Arguments are Futile

[bennyboy]

Christ's "proof" that he was God was not just in miracles, but in actions and presentation of a ideas that were completely strange (like loving your enemy, and the poor inheriting the Earth). He also rose from the dead of His own volition. I think that helped seal the deal. This idea connects back the to idea that God could so all things.

It is a complete idea, whether you take it as truth or not.

Except that those ideas where not new at all and were postulated in indian philosophies such as jainism and buddhism as well

So was the reincarnation of a deity after three days. So was the idea of deities taking human form. The fact that Jesus is such an amalgam of recycled religious ideas is actually the starting point for those who think he's a complete fiction.

Even the Christian narrative points to it: Jesus was a kid, and did nothing special. He traveled (just for hoots?) to Asia Minor , and came back saying things that suprised the locals. It's almost like he was a backpacker studying foreign religions, and then incorporated them into a new fusion religion, isn't it?

Why doesn't the Bible say what he was doing during that time? Obvious answer: because then everyone would know where his religious ideas really came from.