If you lived in Jesus' day, how would you of responded?

[Faith No More]

Don't put the Lord God to the test. He has done far greater miracles than that.

That's not putting him to the test. That's saying, "Hey, you would be fun to party with." Jesus definitely comes across as a stoner sometimes. Other times it's like he went on a bad acid trip and never came back.

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As intelligent as we appear to be today, we are one button push away from being annihilated, tens of thousands die from hunger each day, and our country is in so much debt we can hardly manage paying just the interest on it.

How is that relevant?

[Mister Agenda]

As intelligent as we appear to be today, we are one button push away from being annihilated, tens of thousands die from hunger each day, and our country is in so much debt we can hardly manage paying just the interest on it.

200 years ago, 90% of the world's population were subsistence farmers in what today the UN would define as the same sort of absolute poverty associated with the most impoverished third world nations. Today only 15% of the world''s population is in that state, and we can potentially eliminate that worst state of poverty in our lifetimes.

I'd say we've had a pretty clear net gain since we started really using science. It's transformed the world and bettered the lives of billions of people.

[tor]

I would expose that charlatan.

[Minimalist]

Today only 15% of the world''s population is in that state,

I'm not so sure that is something to be proud of.




People are dispossessed from the land and end up living in garbage dumps.

[Doubting Thomas]

As far as I know "Spring-healed Jack" didn't turn the world upside down. Doesn't have countless books and songs written about him. Doesn't have millions if not billions of true followers. Doesn't have people who sacrificed their lives because of him. Just my thoughts.

The Beatles were more popular than Jesus. And they actually exist(ed).

[Minimalist]

Yeah.....yeah.....yeah!

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I'm unsure how I would 'have' responded. I know I would not 'of' responded at all.

Ignorant wretch.

Boru

[Revelation777]

were u there when jesus did miracles??

The miracle He did in my life happened at age 16.

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They could have made it all up. That's why historians don't treat something from a single source as settled fact. They look for other sources that corroborate the claim. This is precisely what the story of Jesus lacks.


To get people to believe his story with insufficient evidence by promising a cookie for people who do (the cookie itself also to be believed in on insufficient evidence). That doesn't sound much like the supernatural claims of any other religion except all of them.


And the longer ago they were (and thus harder to verify) the greater they were. Creating the universe, creating life, creating humans, drowning the world, stopping the sun, causing plagues, raining mana, raising the dead, healing the sick, walking on water, appearing on toast...anyone else see a pattern here? Even if you grant the existence of God, he seems to be running out of steam.


Not many. Siddhartha, Mohammed (catching up even though Christians had an 800 year head-start), a few others. He had an impact, although the emperor Constantine seems to have had as much to do with that as Jesus did.


Have you ever thought about how really convenient that excuse is?

Also people couldn't leave their homes, it seems, during the days of the OT without experiencing a sign from god. And then, later in the bible (I can't remember the passage) it states that faith is what's important and god will no longer make personal appearances or provide signs.

SO, I usually say:

Thousands of years ago: god can create the entire universe in only seven days
5000 years ago: God can flood the worl
3000 years ago: God can wipe out thousands, destroy cities and spur a nation into conquest
2000 Years ago: God can inspire an itinerant rabbi to and his followers to die.
1000 years ago: God can lead an entire continent into an age of darkness
500 years ago: God can inspire nations to fight the infidels
300 Years ago: God can inspire a reign of Terror
Today: God can appear on a cheese sandwich

Witness, if you will, the diminishing power of God!

First time Christ came as a lamb, second time a Lion.

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That may be true that people can better their lives, but no man can rid their sin by the best of efforts. Only Jesus' sacrifice can pay the price for our sins.

Hardly a sacrifice.

Deity-man suffers three days of pain, as extreme as it may have been, and then becomes emperor of the universe.

A sacrifice would have been dying and staying dead - no more consciousness, no more existence.

And the standard question applies: Why would an all powerful deity need a blood sacrifice to itself to change its own rules?

God abides by His own rules He established. He said without the shedding of blood there is no remission for sins. He didn't have to die for us and we would of perished in our sins. He chose to spill His blood to pay for our sins.

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His apostles believed in him so much that they gave up their lives. Over 500 witnessed Him post resurrection.

Yep, that certainly is written down in a single book, the sole purpose of which is to get you to believe that this happened and worship Jesus. That's where that was written down.

And nowhere else.

The single book is inspired by God, why would I need another book?

[Minimalist]

The miracle He did in my life happened at age 16.

And what did you think was a "miracle?"

[Mudhammam]

The miracle He did in my life happened at age 16.

And what did you think was a "miracle?"

My bet is that it doesn't involve an amputee whose limbs regenerated.