what would you do to 'test' Him and see if He's real and God's Son? even though we're not supposed to 'test' Him, but how would you go about it? which miracle (walking on water, turning the water into wine, healing the sick, raising the dead, etc) would be convincing enough to make you believe?
2006-10-03 10:11:34 · 13 answers · asked by Nikki 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Fair enough -- I accept your hypotheticals that Jesus was Messiah, performed miracles, and I have a time machine, and I have a translator (a person or machine) so I can understand the particular dialect of aramaic spoken in that area and could be understood though I'd be speaking modern english.
I'd want to be there when Jesus showed up and let Thomas put his finger in the holes in Jesus's hands and his hand in Jesus's side. I would demand to do so as well, and if I did and I felt the holes in his hands and the hole in his side, I too would fall to my knees and proclaim, "My Lord and my God," just as Thomas did.
Got a time machine?
2006-10-03 10:17:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There really wouldn't be much that could convince me that Jesus was anything more than a mortal, but I suppose him walking on water or curing the blind might do it. I would still be unable to believe in a god, but I might believe in supernatural powers. Anything that Jesus reportedly did would not be enough to convince me he was god.
2006-10-03 17:17:30 · answer #2 · answered by reverenceofme 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Simply hang out with the hero of the scriptures: "Doubting" Thomas. My kind of guy.
Or I'd just go wait at his tomb, camp out for three days. Then I could also see which one of the Gospels got it right about who discovered the tomb and how many angels there were, because the Gospels don't agree with each other.
2006-10-03 19:24:41 · answer #3 · answered by Zhimbo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To believe what: that he was supernatural? That he was the son of God? That there was another God besides him? The whole Christian mythology?
Raising the dead would be a good start, but would that prove Fundamentalism or Catholicism?
2006-10-03 17:14:50 · answer #4 · answered by Blackacre 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I thank the Lord, I am living in these exciting times , when some of us know him personally, at that time the Holy spirit had not yet been dispersed, so it would have been hard to believe , in what you could not see with your eyes ,as the Disciples of the Bible did.
2006-10-03 17:18:14 · answer #5 · answered by kritikos43 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I wouldn't "test" him. I would observe and determine if I agree. Just like I do now.
2006-10-03 17:16:11 · answer #6 · answered by ZombieTrix 2012 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't you think it is much harder believing in Jesus today than it was when you could see, hear and touch Him? "Blessed are those who has not seen and yet believe.
2006-10-03 17:15:44 · answer #7 · answered by charmaine f 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
go back to when he was first born and strangle and bury him deep. if he comes back, he's the real deal; if not, we saved ourselves from christians
2006-10-03 18:52:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i would ask him to explane the contradictory statements he makes in the bible
if he could make the contradiction make sense i would belive him
2006-10-03 17:14:06 · answer #9 · answered by Truthasarous rex 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
just have patience, dearie, in time we will ALL see HIM when we die. Just by then, we will have either come to 'know HIM', or face the judgment of HIM. Which will it be for you?
2006-10-03 17:40:55 · answer #10 · answered by hillbilly 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋