(February 18, 2014 at 6:54 am)Esquilax Wrote: Poor and humble people are everywhere, just saying.
He had an entire oppressed culture kept as slaves to work with there so what better medium to deliver his message to humanity as a whole? From this people the Messiah would eventually come to spread the word of God to the Gentiles. The Jews were expecting a great king and military leader them into victory over their oppressors though that isn't quite how it turned out.
Quote:could have had a Jesus in every country, and cut out all this confusion and the deaths he knew would result from ideological conflicts over this right then and there. He just didn't.
There wouldn't be a great deal of point doing that if you could spread the religion Jesus founded to every country in the world this isn't a message for one culture of people but a universal message equally for everyone. You get some amount of conflict because not everyone wants to accept it but Jesus knew the strife his message would cause in the future.
"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." Matthew 10:34
You see, like it was all planned out a ahead of time. Though I suppose you're still insisting it was "all made up"?
Quote:So why no Chinese Jesus?
They had Lao Tzu and Confucius delivered teachings similar to Jesus such as the Golden Rule. So some basic guidance from God was there in ancient China.
"When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing
an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if
you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO NOT DO
TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE DONE
TO YOURSELF: so there will be no murmuring
against you in the country, and none in the family;
your public life will arouse no ill-will nor your private
life any resentment."
Quote:Yuuup, and according to your doctrine most of them are going to hell for not believing in Jesus
You will go to hell for rejecting God who happened to be Jesus, hell being a separation from God. But seeing as God will have had some input in other faiths I don't see any reason why they would necessarily be rejecting God or his moral guidance. Even atheists accept Christianity and Christ in terms of morality even if they believe some bull about multiple universes that spawn other universe with blackholes or whatever.
Quote:, and the rest might be going to hell for various things they don't consider sins but your denomination does.
I don't even believe people of other faiths are going to hell, you only go to hell if you reject God and this is entirely voluntary. The same way say Satan would be rejecting God, Satan does of course believe the Christian God exists. There is more to it than merely what you believe you have entirely the wrong idea.
Quote: Don't try this generic god equivocation, it's intensely dishonest.
God has certainly been a guiding hand in all of human history as I have outlined above. The central event God played in history was with his Covenant to his chosen people to who he revealed himself to them as a people as a whole at mount Sinai. Nothing like like ever happened before in any other religion. Exactly what they experienced is something that will of course remain forever outside the bounds of science of course.
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.