After I know this how could I leave the church?

[FatAndFaithless]

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I know that you are going to laugh. I only hope an explanation for this. I would like to think that these facts were not true. I was more happy when i was not a christian.

Tertullian was a roman lawyer that becomecome a christian. He had access to roman documents and made some declarations about 1st century A.D like this:


The thing that dont let me go from christianity is the fact that he says that in roman documents it is registered that when Jesus died there was a big portent in the sky; so we are not talking about an story recorded only in the gospels.

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Ah yes, Tertullian. Commonly used 'historical proof' of the historicity of a divine Jesus. Unfortunately, it doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Firstly, Tertullian was a Christian author therefore a certain level of bias can't be ruled out. Secondly, he was writing ~150 years after the purported death of Jesus so his account can't be considered reliable. Thirdly, he was the man who first formalised the concept of Trinity (it was the Tertullian model which was formed in to doctrine at the Council of Nicea) and as a consequence, there are many records of his life & work; in fact more is recorded about him and his life than about Jesus thus reinforcing the point that if the messiah had been wandering around, as claimed in the bible, performing miracles etc., there would be many independently verifiable accounts of his life.

Plus, I believe he was the guy who said that one of the perks of being in Heaven was being able to watch all the sinners get tortured in Hell. What a guy!