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

[Bob Kelso]

Can I change my answer? I'd be a heckler, like from Happy Gilmore.





Or, if I found a like-minded heathen, like the guys from the Muppets;

[Minimalist]

And what did you think was a "miracle?"

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

It never does.... I bet he found his fucking car keys after they'd been missing in the pants he wore the day before!

[fr0d0]

You mean "YES".

That's how Christians think. You tell yourself God is responsible for virtually every happenstance (except the bad stuff, duh, that's man's fault), irregular or not, because your minds are convinced that your unjustified preconceptions about reality are confirmed by just about any occurrence that mystifies you.

No.

Those are the mental gymnastics that you have to perform to justify your uninformed opinion. If you're interested in the subject, address it. If you're not, then meaningless snipes are fun in your world I guess

[Cato]

No.

Those are the mental gymnastics that you have to perform to justify your uninformed opinion. If you're interested in the subject, address it. If you're not, then meaningless snipes are fun in your world I guess

What? David Blaine isn't God?

[Mudhammam]

That's how Christians think. You tell yourself God is responsible for virtually every happenstance (except the bad stuff, duh, that's man's fault), irregular or not, because your minds are convinced that your unjustified preconceptions about reality are confirmed by just about any occurrence that mystifies you.

No.

Those are the mental gymnastics that you have to perform to justify your uninformed opinion. If you're interested in the subject, address it. If you're not, then meaningless snipes are fun in your world I guess

You must have forgotten where the burden of proof lies. Sorry but your attempts to connect the dots between reality and this imagination of yours is a hopeless endeavor. Even you Christians proudly admit, thoughts and words fail to convey God...precisely as we would expect from a primitive fantasy founded on pretzel logic.

[fr0d0]

No.

Those are the mental gymnastics that you have to perform to justify your uninformed opinion. If you're interested in the subject, address it. If you're not, then meaningless snipes are fun in your world I guess

You must have forgotten where the burden of proof lies. Sorry but your attempts to connect the dots between reality and this imagination of yours is a hopeless endeavor. Even you Christians proudly admit, thoughts and words fail to convey God...precisely as we would expect from a primitive fantasy founded on pretzel logic.

That burden is on something you imagine, not something I profess. Take it up with your alter ego

[Anomalocaris]

If I lived in Jesus's "day", and I had seen some of the world, and wasn't a mere provincial impressionable yokel even by the stardards of that largely illiterate and impressionable age, I would have thought I'd seen all that before with other tricksters, and had heard it all before from other impressionable yokels.

People hopefully became less yokelish as the world and humanity progress. It is telling how Christians would justify themselves by trying to make moderns who had benefitted from the slow, but accumulating, deyokelization of the world sympathize instead with the antics of, and therefore hopefully regress back to the level of, the more yokelish of yokels from a more yokelish corner of an earlier, more yokelish age.

[Tonus]

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.

In Mark 2:1-12 Jesus forgives the sins of a man by simply claiming it; no blood is spilled, no life offered in sacrifice. To prove to the doubting pharisees that he had the authority to do so, he cures the man of his paralysis and tells him he can go home.

If god made the rules, he can re-write them. He did, after all. And in the service of showing that he is truly good and benevolent, he could have bypassed this rule as he did in Mark 2. Do you forgive people for the wrongs done to you? Do others forgive you your trespasses against them? Do any of those require so much as the squashing of a housefly? If you can forgive so freely, then so can god. If he can't, then you're better than he is.

[Mudhammam]

You must have forgotten where the burden of proof lies. Sorry but your attempts to connect the dots between reality and this imagination of yours is a hopeless endeavor. Even you Christians proudly admit, thoughts and words fail to convey God...precisely as we would expect from a primitive fantasy founded on pretzel logic.

That burden is on something you imagine, not something I profess. Take it up with your alter ego

Oh, you've renounced your sado-masochistic fantasy about human sacrifice that Jesus apparently satisfied for you the cross? Great to hear.

[fr0d0]

You keep on dreaming shonuff. Never mind me