RE: Christans show Jesus is God and not Satan
March 18, 2015 at 6:20 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2015 at 6:28 pm by robvalue.)
How can you trust the writers Lek, when you don't even know who they are? They could be anyone alive at that time. Would you trust anyone, regardless of who they were or why they were writing it? I know you'll say God was with them, but why think that? Because the bible says so? Because people have told you so? It's a ridiculous claim they have made. And the bible cannot validate itself.
No one knows who they were, or exactly what their motives were. Although we do know they were so desperate to craft Jesus into "the messiah" that they had him fulfilling prophecies that weren't even prophecies. And doing stuff that doesn't make sense like riding two donkeys at once because they mistranslated the prophecy he was supposed to be doing. Clearly, they were making stuff up and not reporting it as it happened. And if they were eye witnesses, and there's no reason to think they were, they waited about 50 years or something after they met jesus to write any of it down. That is plain ridiculous.
Be honest: if you had never heard of christianity, had never seen the bible before and picked it up and read it, would you just believe it to be true? Or is it just because you've been conditioned to assume it is true?
I challenge you and any other christian to do that. Imagine you're seeing the bible for the first time, ever. Assume you know nothing about it. And just read it, all the way through, start to finish, with fresh eyes. Is this a magic book, or is it what you would expect from primitive people trying to understand the universe?
No one knows who they were, or exactly what their motives were. Although we do know they were so desperate to craft Jesus into "the messiah" that they had him fulfilling prophecies that weren't even prophecies. And doing stuff that doesn't make sense like riding two donkeys at once because they mistranslated the prophecy he was supposed to be doing. Clearly, they were making stuff up and not reporting it as it happened. And if they were eye witnesses, and there's no reason to think they were, they waited about 50 years or something after they met jesus to write any of it down. That is plain ridiculous.
Be honest: if you had never heard of christianity, had never seen the bible before and picked it up and read it, would you just believe it to be true? Or is it just because you've been conditioned to assume it is true?
I challenge you and any other christian to do that. Imagine you're seeing the bible for the first time, ever. Assume you know nothing about it. And just read it, all the way through, start to finish, with fresh eyes. Is this a magic book, or is it what you would expect from primitive people trying to understand the universe?
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