What is your best rational argument against the diety of Jesus Christ?

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(Note: I am not interested in your feelings, but instead focused on a logical presentation of facts and assumptions supporting your conclusion).

Regarding Nia23's non-answer, I clearly did not ask for spell checking assistance. Nia23's reply is not rational nor wanted. If you don't want to answer the question, move along. And Nuia 23, if you want to answer questions, perhaps you should learn how to use punctuation and capital letters.

Answer 1

Let's look at this logically.
According to Christianity, God is the All-mighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth and says, "BE" and it is. God is the greatest and, according to the first commandment given to Moses (pbuh) "you shall have no other gods before me."

Christianity teaches also the contradiction of that first commandment by deifying Jesus (pbuh). The principle behind the "son of God" idea is presented (at least according to the Roman Catholic faith) as a necessity for God to sacrifice his only son in order to save humanity and allow us to enter Heaven.
This is completely illogical.

If God is the greatest and most Powerful, why would He need to save humanity by means of sacrificing His son? He can say, "BE SAVED" and it would happen. To say that God needed assistance in saving humanity would indicate that there is something greater than He......and according to all the framework of Christianity as laid out in the Old Testament, there is NO ONE or NOTHING greater than God.

Jesus was a man, a great prophet. He was not a god, nor son of God. This is logical.

Answer 2

There could only ever be one rational argument against Jesus Christ, and that would be his dead body in the tomb. Why would thousands of his followers die agonising deaths at the hands of their persecutors rather than denounce him if he had never existed? And how can it be that this man, who the world says never existed, is still having a positive influence on millions of people, 2,000 years after his death and resurrection? Methinks everybody is protesting too much, which is actually a very good argument FOR Jesus Christ. Blue Foots - Hosea 13:4 does not say that God is not a man. It says the Lord God brought his people out of Egypt and they shall acknowledge no god but Him and no Saviour except Him. Before Jesus came to earth and was born as a human, he was the very Word of God who was with God in the beginning and who is God. He was there at creation. The Word became flesh and dwelt with man - that would be Jesus. Since he is part of the One Being who is God, he also has the titles of Lord and Saviour, of Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Jesus was the Word incarnate, and the Word is God. LM

Answer 3

I have never seen a rational argument against the deity of Christ. It's possible to rationally believe that he was not the Son of God, by assuming that the eyewitness accounts and such are all lies made up by later con artists - but that is itself a faith position. There simply isn't data to support a rational argument for or against his divinity.

Best wishes and God bless.

Answer 4

Jesus Christ was not a Deity, just a man that could do good things, he may have had special "powers", he may have been the "Son of God" but he was still just a man. Not a God. That's not really an argument, but ever sense I read Da Vinci Code.. that's what I believe... well I'm agnostic so I don't believe in God but Jesus Christ was a man, he lived and loved and died as a man.

Answer 5

The Bible is a totally immoral fable
People deserve endless punishment in hell because Adam & Eve were tricked into eating ...
God murdered his son so the guilty could go unpunished ...

There was no real person that lived as the biblical Jesus. Nazareth was not a town in the first century. The bible stories are a collection of religious fables mixed from several sources.

Jesus life is mostly based on a plant. Seed is sacrificed, that gets buried to be resurrected and provide life for people .. the process can go on eternally.
My body is bread (from wheat) my blood is wine (from grapes).
This is similar to Osiris who was Bread and Beer (from wheat).

so ... no real Jesus.

Answer 6

There's no mention of Jesus outside the New Testament.

This is despite the high degree of literacy in the Roman world, and despite the relatively large number of Roman and Jewish commentators and historians writing in the first century.

Despite several significant events surrounding Jesus being described by the bible to have had large numbers of witnesses, such as the feeding of the multitude, and ascension, or to have been extremely notable, such as the resurrection, levitating on a lake, and prominent public conflicts with temple priests and Pilate, not ONE mention is made of them in surviving writings from the era outside the Bible.

Hence, the Jesus-Myth.

Answer 7

Hmm, he was supposedly all powerful yet he could barely carry the cross without falling over. (Many Christians say the Passion of the Christ is accurate.)

Check out this site. The author believes that Jesus never existed at all. If he didn't exist, it's impossible for him to be a deity!
http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/christianity_nojesus.html

Answer 8

I believe in the blessed trinity and the holy miracele of one God in three parts, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. There is no logical argument for or against this that be proven either way. Mankind has tried throughout recorded history to prove of disprove the existence of God. It can't be done, hence the term 'faith' used to describe various religions.

Answer 9

It's almost impossible to make a logical argument given that it was so long ago and we have no facts, only what certain people wanted to relay 70 yrs. after his death. But I would say:
* The bible has contradictions esp. concerning Jesus' life
* Why would god send himself to be killed by his own creation to save said creation from his own wrath?
* Why didn't god do the whole Jesus thing BEFORE Noah?
* The bible is so poorly written in general that people kill each other over it's interpretation.

etc...

Answer 10

Not against but for......

1)There is a universal moral law.

2)If there is a universal moral law, then there must be a universal moral lawgiver.

3)Therefore, There must be God.
(therefore the person of Christ is the quintecential representation of that which is morally pure and upright)

If you look at what this guy preached ("out of the heart of man comes evil" etc.) He teached about a moral standard that was impossible to attain. Christianity is not about "rules" to try and keep but it is a lifestyle that the self itself cannot produce.

P.S and to the guy above me......

No one took Jesus' life, he GAVE it. Get your facts straight. By the way "murdered"? That implys he died. But hes not dead!

Answer 11

I didn't even know he WAS 'diety'. I guess the best argument against that is 'If you're too diety, you could end up developing an eating disorder.'