(March 2, 2014 at 8:58 pm)xpastor Wrote:(March 2, 2014 at 8:08 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: So you believe in gods, ghosts, spirits, angels, demons, zombies, devils, and resurrections and all other Middle East ethnocentric religious and political fairy tales. It's hard to free oneself from years of intensive brainwashing. Maybe you should go to church.This statement would suggest that you have difficulty reading plain English.
No, I do not believe in any supernatural agencies.
Your statements in the previous post were downright weird, sometimes saying that it was all myth, and sometimes talking as if it were accurate history, Jesus' mommy telling him he was the Son of God.
The majority position of critical New Testament scholars is that Jesus was a real historical personage. He was an apocalyptic prophet, thought the end was coming in his own generation. He never claimed to be the Son of God or the phrase used in the gospels, the Son of Man. And he never did any miracles. That was all written in later. The gospels were written between 35 years after his death (Mark) and 65 years after his death (John). There is probably a slightly earlier written source which has been lost, but being earlier does not mean it was any more truthful.
Nevertheless, the first three gospels preserve some authentic traditions. John is all bullshit. What is reasonably historically accurate in the gospels is Jesus' ethical teaching (Sermon on the Mount), his preaching about the end of the world and the parables, which are mostly illustrations of his belief that God would soon judge the whole world.
It’s in the past.
