(September 22, 2014 at 5:17 pm)Michael B Wrote: From the Christian perspective, Rhythm, Christ is the only perfect moral example and martyr. So to ask 'couldn't someone else have done the same thing?' is another counter-factual question from our perspective. Again I'm not sure how far you can go in understanding Christian doctrines by going down paths that are contrary to a Christian understanding of history.
I am not sure how much you can possibly understand something, as oppose to simply echoing what you wanted to believe until it sounded true, unless you were to go down different alternative paths to examine the thing from other perspectives.
Counter factual musings often give the clearest perspectives on putative facts.