What if the new testament is a fraud?

Question

What if Jesus was Satan? He thought illogical; confusing more people than he saved. He basically said it was ok to sin. He would forgive you. Sounds like a trick to me. If God wanted to forgive us, he would have said so earlier. After all God doesn't make mistakes. He's perfect. Sounds like Jesus was misguiding people and could not be stopped. He took advantage that what ever you said about him, you could turn back and say to God. You know, like ...you're a fraud. Jesus our savior, or were the priests correct in crucifying him and making a new Testament to restore order.

Answer 1

What if this is my dream and when I wake up nothing exists.

Answer 2

You might be misinterpreting this: I don't think it says it OK to sin anywhere in the bible. However, the bible and its teaching acknowledge that are human and thus infallible.: It's likely that we will sin. But Jesus, for good or ill, offers us forgiveness for our transgressions.
Maybe your interpretation does make some sense: if you sin, you are wrong. Can't argue with that. But "let he (or she) among you who is without sin cast the first stone." ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Personally, and I don't mean to offend anyone, but I've thought of Jesus as kind of advocate or defense attorney of the most loving kind. We've sinned and must pay. But for the intervention of Jesus, we would pay a very heavy price for our errors. In the end, if we are sincere, he'll take our side against a fair but harsh judge who had warned us. But we must demonstrate that we are worthy of his intervention.
There's lots of debate over the new testament: learned scholars can't agree. I'm not sure, either. However, maybe you shouldn't read into it too much: take the main lesson from the bible and hold it dear; "do unto others as you would have others do unto you." Do, this, be sincere and do the right thing: if there is justice, it will work out.

Answer 3

I did not personally know Jesus so therefor I can not say with absolute certainty what did or did not transpire during his lifetime. I can say with absolute certainty however, That the Bible is a history book written by mortal man and therefore should be viewed with an open mind. As we all know History books hardly ever tell an entire story. The are usually only written from the point of view of the current establishment and many unfavorable facts can be distorted or omitted all together.
Before I start getting all the hate mail... I am not saying that the basic concepts are not true, only that we should all leave room for the possibility that upon meeting the Big Guy himself we may get a few of the blanks filled in for us.

Answer 4

Jesus never said it was OK to sin. In fact, Jesus told people "Go and sin no more, lest something worse happens to you", etc.

There are quite a lot of prophecies (over 300) from the Old Testament that Jesus fulfilled, so you can't say that "if God wanted to forgive us, he would have said so earlier" - He DID - MANY times.

Have you even bothered to READ the New Testament? When you read what Jesus did, and what he said, you would see for yourself that He was both sane, as well as real.

Answer 5

The Old testament points to and completely agrees with the New testament. Otherwise how would the wise men have known how and when to find Jesus? Check out Luke chapter 24 verses 25-27 Compare Matthew chapter 2 to Micah chapter five verse 2, Just as one example.

Answer 6

What if the New Testament is true? What if they did make a mistake to crucify Him? What if your thinking is totally wrong? What if all that you are saying about Jesus is wrong? What will happen to you?
Is your attitude of anger directed only at Jesus or at everyone? These are questions that you should be asking as well.

Answer 7

First off what Jesus brought us was forgivness. People are made to make mistakes, nobody is perfect. What happened is Jesus did not write the Bible so it was written by who? Exactly humans who are power hungry and always make mistakes. You have to watch what you read and remember the New Testament is really shaky. There are four authors of the bible. Each one with their own messages.

Answer 8

Jesus is the Christ. The only begotten Son of God that was given so that all that believeth in him would not perish but have everlasting life. Jesus did not come to condemn or confuse the people of this world he came to seek and to save the people of this world. If you admit that God was perfect, then you need to understand that Jesus must be perfect also. Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit comprise the Holy Trinity. Jesus never said it was ok to sin, but rather inspired Paul to write in Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Jesus's life was taken by no one, rather he willingly gave his life for you, me and all others who make up this world.

Answer 9

It was 490 years from the time the word went forth of the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem to the time that Christ emerged as a prophet. The Jews were expecting him at that time! He fulfilled something like 300 prophecies, exactly as it was said he would do. The New Testament is not a fake. Read your Bible hon :)

Answer 10

Jesus never said it was OK to sin. He did die for our sins and if we are repentant, we can have our sins forgiven. His death was a gift for us so that we can once again have the opportunity to gain God's favor.

Because of Christ’s ransom, our errors can be pardoned. John writes: “If anyone does commit a sin, we have a helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one. And he is a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins.” (1 John 2:1, 2)

Christ’s ransom opens the way for the fulfillment of God’s purpose—that obedient humans live forever in Paradise on earth.
He bought back what Adam and Eve lost.

John 3:16 says: "For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life."

John 17:3 also tells us that 'this means everlasting life, taking in knowledge of Jesus and his father'

Answer 11

God doesn't make mistakes; people do. Jesus was guiding people away from what had become a very hypocritical religion that had moved farther and farther away from the bible. I'm not really sure where you're coming up with all this stuff.