A simple challenge for atheists

[Jenny A]

The church had become well and truly corrupt by 300AD, with the invention of the Pope and the Catholic church founded in Rome.

Jesus said "Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him" (1 John 3:15)

The definition of a Christian is someone who believes in Jesus AND follows what Jesus taught. Believing in Jesus only is not enough to make someone a Christian. "You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that--and shudder." (James 2:9)

The perpetrators of the Inquisition were not Christians, and had nothing to do with the real church, despite their claims. Anyone can claim to be acting in the name of God, though it is only by their actions can you actually tell whether they are a Christian or not.

Somehow we've left that lonely atom in an anomaly in it's universe behind.

But should you really want to discuss what Jesus actually said, The Gospel given the label Mark, which is by far the earliest, is the best evidence. Mark says that Jesus expected the son of man to descend on a cloud before the generation of his listeners had died. He was apocryphal prophet. And like John the Baptist before him, Jesus was a failed prophet. What he said would come to pass didn't. The kingdom of god is a 2000 years too late. Paul too expected the kingdom in his lifetime. Wrong. It didn't happen.