RE: Do Christians really believe most of us are going to hell?
June 30, 2014 at 10:52 am
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2014 at 10:54 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 30, 2014 at 10:45 am)Irrational Wrote:See what I mean, always refers to god. There's no christ, no messiah, no annointed one - without divinity, without the origin of the message, without the annointer. No one who uses these terms can do so accurately, while leaving out god. God is embedded.(June 30, 2014 at 10:31 am)Rhythm Wrote: Care to elaborate on what they meant by "christ"?
That depends on what you mean by "they". The authors of the Synoptic Gospels? Or the followers of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels?
Before Jesus' death, I doubt his followers saw him as some god. They saw him as the Messiah rather, which is where the term Christ comes from. So nothing beyond a great prophet or king chosen by God to save the Jews from the Romans.
How, for example, could we say "an atheist who believes in jesus - chosen by god"
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