Quote:You can't accept it because you can't buy it. I think you should listen to yourself.
I dont buy aspects of Christian theology at the moment.
Quote:If God is Jesus and Jesus is God and God sent his son Jesus to die, then yes, he killed himself.
How did He kill Himself?
Quote:Without God we're dead? I don't feel like a zombie
Are you saying Jesus was crucified because he was separated from God? What are you saying?
Indeed. Without God all life ceases (If one beleives in god). Just because you reject God doesnt mean He rejects you.
Quote:What? Time was different back then?
No. If something was written in the 1980s and it was a secondary source of someones life back in the 1940s, we would say thats not very credible. But Ancient history is different...
Quote:You need to understand when logic is most necessary.. you're picking and choosing - doesn't that give you the idea that maybe the whole book is useless?? People don't write books full of contradictions and lies unless they intend to deceive.
I was telling my friend one day that the trinity makes sense and is completely illogical. He told me that I was missing something, logic. Me and you and everyone else in the Western world (maybe the whole world?) Have adopted Greek logic. The OT was written with a different logic, Hebrew Block Logic. Which is rather complicated. (A great example of this is Western Christians in the 3rd century thought, for one to be holy, they should abstain from sex. However, in the OT there is nothing wrong with sex, a gift from God, but it can be bad). Hebrew logic is known to have a lot of paradoxes. So when we read the OT we have to becareful a) what are we trying to read into it without letting the context and story speak for itself.
b) What logic are we using? Greek or Hebrew? We need to look at the OT with Hebrew logic.
So its very complicated. Another thing to think about is 'Poetic lisence'.
