(May 24, 2014 at 6:26 pm)Artur Axmann Wrote:(May 24, 2014 at 12:27 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Which is why archaeology has destroyed the bible.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-bibl...0684869131
Thinking doesn't make it so..
For a destroyed book it seems to upset many.
Is Christ the Messiah .? Well the only ones who say he's not ,are the ones with the most to lose .
so,we have to always consider the source..
Then again, those who have the most to lose, if he was the Messiah , wouldn't even exist if He was not . think about it.
No, the ones who say he is not, amongst theists, are the ones who have the source material that clearly shows Christ failed to meet the requirements for messianic status. As I showed, the source IS being considered, the source material itself, the documents upon which all the Abrahamic faiths are based off of, it's where these claims come from. The ones who want to say Christ WAS the messiah have THE most to lose if they admit their error; because if Christ was not the messiah, then the entire religion itself is suddenly null and void, where if Christ is the messiah, the Judaic faith has nothing to lose by going with it, because it would actually be in tune with what they've been believing this entire time. It would VALIDATE them, not destroy them. The Christian religion is muuuch larger than Judaism in numbers. Why? Well, there's a reason the Church spent so much time working to convert pagans and those who had never even heard of the Abrahamic religions, and not working to convert existing Abrahamic believers; because to those who are versed in the original source material know better, and it's easier to gain numbers from people who are already ignorant of the origins of the debate.