(April 10, 2015 at 3:23 pm)dyresand Wrote: The whole dying for your sins things was added to the bible 16,000 years after jesus supposedly died.
What he did die for is this.
1. challenged the status quo
2. he made people in power
3. He was a heretic
All in all OT is still in the court so you better pick that ball up and drop the NT.
Paul discusses at length the role of Jesus' crucifixion in dealing with the sin problem in his letters, the authentic ones of which are near universally dated to the 50s by scholars (i.e. a couple of decades after Jesus death). Not sure where the 1600 comes from.
I would agree that he challenged the status quo, annoyed those in power, and his views would have appeared heretical to many.
So my question to you would be this...what do you think he was saying that got him on the wrong side of so many important people, and was bad enough to get him executed?
(I am quite happy to juggle both the NT and OT at the same time, rather than drop one. In fact I insist.)
