(January 28, 2015 at 5:47 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(January 28, 2015 at 5:41 pm)SteveII Wrote: It is not the same if you believe Jesus was God. Mohammad and Joseph Smith never claimed to be god, just passing on a message only available to them. People interacted with Jesus (God) and asked question and received answers dynamically.
Oh, okay: I guess we should just ignore the entirety of the old testament and every prophet of the christian god within, despite the fact that those prophets formed the basis of christianity before Jesus even showed up, and hence we can just dismiss anything Jesus claimed too, as he can't be the son of the obviously not real god who only had men be his spokesmen before that point.
Good job, you've just disproved your own religion, under that logic.
No, I would say that the OT books are significantly less important that the in-person teachings of Jesus. The OT provided the basis but I would not say formed the basis. The NT teachings were a significant deviation.