(February 18, 2014 at 8:40 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: I'm aware we don't know for sure who or what exactly the stories were initially based upon and there is a good reason not believe the Biblical account is word for word historically accurate. Nonetheless real locations, civilizations and historical people and events are somewhere at the heart of it. some of it won't necessarily leave much of an archaeological trace.
Just "good reason." You never provide any resources at any point! It's all just assertion after assertion!
Quote: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.
Leaving aside that the Jewish slavery in Egypt never happened, you still aren't answering the question, you're just explaining the problem: telling me what the bible describes doesn't tell us why the obviously superior alternative didn't happen.
Quote: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.
The concept of a universal message is entirely undermined by the fact that it was so selectively deployed and took centuries to reach the entire world, when the messenger was entirely capable of doing it in an actually universal manner.
And did you ever think that some of the conflict in the world was due to the fact that the entirely convincing presence of the messiah didn't occur in those conflicted corners of the world?
Quote: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.
Gotta love that cultural re-appropriation, you scumbag.

Leaving aside the absolute, unfounded assertion you just made, you still haven't answered the question: why did China not get a messiah to spread the message of god through their area simultaneous with Jesus?

Quote: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.
Alright, you've been told over and over about this, and I've just had it. I've had it with your refusal to listen, with your inability to let go of bare assertions... it's horribly frustrating.
And yet for some reason you run from my debate challenge...

Quote: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.
More bare assertions. Yawn.

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