(March 4, 2015 at 1:31 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:(March 4, 2015 at 9:55 am)watchamadoodle Wrote: Most Christians might accept that the miracles are myths.
Many Christians might accept that the resurrection of Jesus was not physical but only spiritual
Huh? I would think the divinity of Jesus would be an essential component to Christianity.
Paul wrote in what is now canonized in the NT that "without a physical resurrection our faith is in vein" or words to that effect. I'm going to search when I have time...
A Christian who believes in the teachings of Jesus but rejects the supernatural (which to me makes no sense considering that most of his teachings were about the afterlife) is an "Atheist Christian".
1 Corinthians 15:13-14. Notice the extremely awkward phraseology in v. 13.
"13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith."
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza