Were the apostles his shills?
"He cured me from leprosy with his holy snake oil."
2006-07-27 06:25:29 · 21 answers · asked by Biggest Douche in the Universe 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
one cant even compare Jesus with the other two...Jesus is Lord and they definitely are not.....shame on you
2006-07-27 06:36:38 · answer #1 · answered by shiningon 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There's a difference between Jesus, and men like Smith and Hubbard.
Smith and Hubbard produced their own writings on the religions that they founded.
Jesus, meanwhile, never wrote a thing down -- so He cannot be accused, as can the other two guys, of "making things up" in order to get people to follow Him.
Everything we know about Him was written down not by Himself, but by others -- many, many others, and not just the 4 Gospel writers.
All of them tell pretty much the same story about Jesus -- with uncanny consistency and accuracy.
We can't say the same thing about guys like Hubbard and Smith, who were at the end of the day self-promoters.
2006-07-27 06:30:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was either Lord, or a liar, or a lunatic. He is either who He claimed to be or He is a liar.... but if that was the case... why die an horrible death with all those beatings that just about skinned him alive... for a lie?
If He was a lunatic... His teachings were sound for all to see. He was healing people... and was murdered by those in rule and authority. Why was that? Was He a threat to them so much so that they had to kill Him?
No... I think He is the Lord. And that separates him from anyone else in history. As far as outside criticism goes... we don't need the Bible to confirm what Jesus did. Josephus Flavius did a fine job describing about what Jesus did and how He died. And get this! Josephus was a hostile witness. So what excuse is there for you now?
2006-07-27 06:36:08 · answer #3 · answered by ddead_alive 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
L. Ron Hubbard and Joseph Smith will never be made into dashboard plastic figurines like Jesus. His apostles were more like his posse don't 'ya think?
2006-07-27 06:37:25 · answer #4 · answered by Mr. Christopher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One major difference between Jesus and Hubbard and Smith was that Hubbard and Smith were real historic figures and not just the repackaging of Jewish and Pagan myths.
2006-07-27 06:34:38 · answer #5 · answered by 自由思想家 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
L. Ron Hubbard and Joseph Smith were DELIBERATE charlatans, they knew waht they were doing. Jesus was an UNCONSCIOUS charlatan, he REALLY thought he was on a divine mission, until when he was on the cross he realized he was gonna die and hollered, "My God, why have you forsaken me?!" After death, he was buried and decomposed. Then from the love of his disciples and his predictions about his resurrection, there arose the resurrection myth.
2006-07-27 06:31:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ummmm. No. Don't confuse what Jesus taught with what others constructed around him. Christ NEVER claimed that he was GOD. In fact he actually told those around him not to worship him. After his death, however, domatic beliefs were built up around him to the incarnation that you are currently familiar with. Started good then was blown way out of proportion. I suspect that something similar occured with Hubbard & Smith.
2006-07-27 06:30:51 · answer #7 · answered by Rance D 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-15 06:39:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are three possibilities that I see for Jesus.
1. He was a charlatan
2. He was a good philosopher, and people later made a "god-figure" out of him, and polluted his message. (IE: he never claimed to be the son of God)
3. He never existed at all, and was a fictional character, stolen from earlier mythology. (See Mithraism, for example)
2006-07-27 06:34:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A good charlatan knows when to sneak out of town.
2006-07-27 06:28:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think Jesus was a gifted, prophetic man who was murdered for being different from the norm of society.
2006-07-27 06:30:17 · answer #11 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋