RE: Religious leaders/pastors turning atheist.
January 6, 2015 at 10:41 am
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2015 at 10:43 am by Strider.)
(January 6, 2015 at 4:38 am)Godschild Wrote: How so, a perfect man died on the cross, that's what it took so our sins could be forgiven through one sacrifice. Yes Jesus was God, God without His powers, the man lived a perfect life as God does.The notion of atonement through a blood sacrifice is incredibly ancient. As such, it is unsurprising that the ancient people of the time relied on even earlier myths to craft their own salvation mythos.
GC
Your basis for believing in this as fact rests entirely on one book, written after the claimed events and found agreeable to be included in the bible (as opposed to say the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which casts Jesus in a less than favorable, but more human, light). If you believe that then that's all well and good, but you can't state it to us as though it is fact.
Quote:My faith is in the one who died for me, He's also the one who imparted the knowledge to me.Knowledge of his existence, of some universal truth? What about all of the other people in the world that are equally convinced that their god/gods have also imparted ultimate knowledge to them? Why do you happen to be right, but they happen to be wrong?
GC
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ~ Benjamin Franklin
