(November 25, 2011 at 8:00 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Apologists will try to tell you that he was a nobody to those who would have written the accounts. They like to work in a little underdog narrative. Son of god, miracles left, right, and center. Entirely unremarkable.
Just like what Lucent said about the Trinity, it's having your cake and eating it too.
Jesus' life was the "greatest story ever told", except that he was an unremarkable nobody that never got anyone's attention outside his band of followers.
Here's a quote from the "reliable eye-witness accounts" discussing this insignificant, unremarkable ministry that never got anyone's attention:
Quote:Matthew 4:23-25 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.
Yeah, totally unremarkable ministry. Just some nobody that no one ever paid attention to pretty much.
There are plenty more examples in the Gospel accounts. Herod Antipas wondered if he was John the Baptist reincarnated (Matt 14:1-2). A centurion asked Jesus to heal his servant (Luke 7:1-10). A wealthy woman sought Jesus out to cure her illness (Mark 5:25-34). Two wealthy friends of Jesus convinced a Roman governor to allow a crucified man a burial (John 19:38-42). A wealthy man sought Jesus out to be advised how he might be saved (Mark 10:17-23). John the Baptist, who was himself a successful religious leader, declared Jesus the "Lamb of God" (John 1:29) the one for whom he was to be a forerunner (Matt 3:3). All this is to say nothing of the established clergy at the time, for whom Jesus was a constant thorn in their side, so much that they met on Passover Freaking Eve to conspire against him.
Read the Gospel accounts. If you accept them as a reliable account, you do not have the option of discounting Jesus as an obscure figure.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
