During Jesus's time without all the advances in technology and the lack of history to learn from, people have had to be extremely gullible right? I beleive so. These days nobody believes it till they see it. With that in mind, if Jesus wasn't born until today and made his worldy appearance in 20 years would people believe him to be the messiah? My point is...is it possible that Jesus was just a crazy guy who believed himself to be the direct descendant of God and people of those gullible times got sucked into the entire facade? Do all you born agains really believe that Mother Mary was a virgin? Or is it possible that she got pregnant before marriage and lied about it because she didn't want to be labeled the town slut? Do you people really beleive all the STORIES in the bible to be true such as: moses spitting the sea, Jesus healing the blind. I need answers as to why people can still be so gullible.
2006-10-25 06:04:23 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
z9y2a8sdf...Once of the points to this question is to hope that someone does not answer with a quote from any holy book. Use common sense. If I see angels I will beleive with or without the permission of allah that they exist. I can't believe you believe that stuff.
2006-10-25 06:11:32 · update #1
Excuse me, lookn2cjc, People were different in those times. Manerisms were different. If you believe that stuff that you are one of the gullibles that I speak of.
2006-10-25 06:16:14 · update #2
Shoo shoo, all that you have said sounds like such insanity. Can you listen to yourself. You literally sound crazy. Thrown into fire. Do you really think that a loving god would do something like that. that is a very hold thing.
If I were to create 100 robots specifically to just idolize me and worship me would you think I was crazy. If one of those robots was defiant and I threw them into a pool of fire would you think I was even crazier???
2006-10-25 06:19:08 · update #3
mystic_si, because the People were starting to sway into the belief of Christ that is why. The jews could not win them back over to there side. The jews were threatened so they took action. Your question to me still is unsatisfactory. Jesus caused a stir the Jewish community that they didn't like. When they asked him to stop he simply said no and then they declared blasphomy.
2006-10-25 06:22:54 · update #4
lookn2cjc, I am sorry that I have offended you. I did not mean too. It is just that I have already heard all these answers before, because this is not the first time I have asked the question. If believing in Jesus has made your life better than that is wonderful. My life is very pleasant I am feel lucky to be alive everyday. I just do not believe in religion. It just seems obvious to me that these facts are fiction. once again I apologize.
2006-10-25 07:03:45 · update #5
Shawn L, I did not say that God does not exist. I believe in God as a higher power. It is just everything else that sounds so fraudulent. If you re-read my question you will that I never said God doens't exist. thanks for trying to explain. When I ask a chrisitan a question they start to quote versus from the bible at me, when I do not believe in the bible. So these quotes mean nothing to me. good luck to you.
2006-10-25 07:06:52 · update #6
David H, thanks for calling me stupid. I am not trying to discount the word of God. I just think that the entire religion and most of the quoted beliefs are nonsense. I knew when I startred this question, I would offend a lot of people so I expected your tyupe of response. Either way, use your common sense David about everything you read in the bible. I do believe in God, but I do not hold myself to a religion. the God I beleive in is just not as sinister as yours.
2006-10-25 07:13:26 · update #7
You are correct that in this day and age Jesus would have been considered crazy. My guess is that he would have ended locked up and medicated for extended periods of time. The "miracles" that he supposedly preformed in biblical times are the types of things that illusionists like David Copperfield have pulled off today.
My belief is that the bible, which is penned by men, not some messiah, is merely a set of guidelines to live by that are intended to maintain some semblence of law and order.
Thou Shalt Not Kill, Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Wife, etc. etc. etc. they are merely guiding principals.
I believe that a man named Jesus did walk this earth and I believe that he had a cult-like following.
Like the game telephone line, where something is whispered into someone's ear and then it is whispered down the line and in the end it is completely different from what it started out as, I believe that simple things that Jesus may have done in his lifetime were greatly exaggerated. By the time it reached the next town, something as simple as him feeding a hungry person could have easily turned into the story about turning water into wine and feeding the masses with a loaf of bread and a single fish.
It is said that the red sea would have been frozen at the time that it is claimed Jesus walked on water. I can walk on frozen water too.
There are explanations for all of it... the reason that people are so gullible isn't gullibility at all... it is a need for something! We, as the human race are always questing for something, whether it be true love, the perfect job, whatever... we see death and destruction around us every day... Amish children being murdered, wars taking place, diseases ravishing good people with no cure... we long for inner peace (not meaning to sound hippie-like) but that is how we are wired. We search for something to make us feel better... that is why the tobacco and alcohol industries do so well... why drug dealers prosper... some choose to turn to an invisible figure in the sky who they can talk to anytime they choose to ask for guidance and who will make things all better. It is the power of positive thinking that really does it but to each his own. If it makes one feel better to talk to God or Allah or Jesus then so be it, better than talking to one's self, that could get you locked up.
2006-10-25 06:26:32 · answer #1 · answered by former toy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Okay, so the Bible is a book about miraculous events showing the power of an omnipotent being who, by definition, exceeds the limitation of worldly possibility, and you’re claiming it’s all fiction because the content doesn’t fit within the limitation of worldly possibility?
I like your logic. It’s silly.
The Bible tells of events and powers beyond our ken, beyond that which we are capable of. That is the entire point! God wouldn’t be much of a god at all if he had to abide by the rules of time, space, and dimension. God is miraculous. By definition, a miracle is an occurrence that should not be possible within the standard set of possibility.
But here you are, claiming that miracles are impossible therefore they do not occur. Here’s a nice little double standard for you. I demand to be able to explain everything that occurs - if I can explain it, then it is not a miracle and not an act of God. If I cannot explain it, then it never happened and God still doesn’t exist.
What you’re doing is you’re demanding limitlessness be limited so that a limited understanding can understand it. I’m sorry, but your demands are self-defeating and they make no sense.
How can people be so gullible? Same way you can convince yourself that the existence of God can somehow fall under the same parameters as everything else.
2006-10-25 06:28:40 · answer #2 · answered by Shawn L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that Mary never uttered a word to try to stop the onslaught of her Son if she was just a loose woman who got pregnant out of wedlock, speaks volumes! SHE must have been fully convinced, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that she was the mother of the SON OF GOD, or she would have tried to have Him declared insane just to save His life!
No, she KNEW who He was, and how she became with child......
Apparently, you've already made up your mind beforehand to discount anything anybody here has to say....especially when we are trying to respect the fact that you wanted our opinion, and not Biblical quotes. Am I gullible for believing? I have a transformed life I could tell you about, but then again, you probably wouldn't really be open to hearing....
I hope you find peace.....'cause I was without it before Jesus, and it's no way to live!
2006-10-25 06:13:40 · answer #3 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try reading Lee Strobel's "A Case For Christ" (or at least read something!)
If he was just a lunatic, why were the Jewish leaders so terribly worried about him? Why wasn't he disproven right there? Why did they feel it necessary to execute him? Even they did not deny what he said.
Plus it's not the witnesses of just the 4 gospel writers, there is history noted in other areas, other writers, greek, roman etc about Jesus.
He did perform miracles and many still would not believe- it would be the same 20 years from now
2006-10-25 06:14:06 · answer #4 · answered by mystic_sigh 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man...you are just stupid. Your agenda is to criticize Jesus Christ, Mary, The Word of God, and people. You have no intention of conducting a logical or a Biblical conversation, your intention is to criticize anybody and everybody. That's your lame power-kick. It's really pathetic. If you are so gullible within your own stupidity to really believe everything you said, then you are more stupid than a fencepost.
****You really are stupid. You know nothing of my god...in fact I never said I have one. You are just out to insult God, The Bible and everyone else. If you don't believe it, then keep your mouth shut and quit trying to intimidate people into thinking in your thrown-off ways. Keep it between you and God or if you don't believe in God then keep it to yourself. Your words are very vain and dangerous too...for you.
2006-10-25 07:06:45 · answer #5 · answered by David H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We will learn to walk by faith more and more. God is a God of miracles. The Christians in North Korea are surviving and if they can do it anyone can. I know that sounds presumptuous, and of course, pain goes with it, but how will be grow stronger in the Lord without faith? We have to walk by faith. That's they key. You can move mountains if you believe (see Mark 11:22-24). There are no easy solutions but the power of God is greater. We need to learn to be obedient, to pray constantly, to meditate on the word, to get a word from the Lord daily. We need to have dozens of Scriptures memorized in order to survive what could happen. Eventually, Christians could even be jailed for having a Bible. In fact, a person seen in public with a Bible is shot in North Korea, and if someone reports someone reading a Bible in their home, they are jailed and tortured. So, we don't know what may happen next.
2016-03-28 07:17:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you really think our modern technology has altered human nature like that? I don't think so, I think our tendency to believe or not believe is just as it has ever been.
I think through out the span of time, even when people see it, they tend to not believe it. (There's tons of examples of that in the scriptures too - the thousands that Jesus miraculously fed that left him the next day comes to mind).
Why is that? Because there is so much more to believing something than just seeing. It's something much more profound that happens in the heart and mind.
best wishes
2006-10-25 06:21:16 · answer #7 · answered by daisyk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe and would die for my beliefs. I guess we will all find out in the end on judgement day, when God asks what did you do with the gift He gave you, His Son Jesus, and you say nothing and I say I believed in Him and you are cast into the Lake of Fire forever to burn, and I will enter the gates of Heaven where I will forever be with My Lord, My Savior, and the Creator of all. Is it worth not believing? I would say NO!
2006-10-25 06:14:03 · answer #8 · answered by shoo shoo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 80-90% of the Jesus story is pure myth. I would have to agree that Jesus, at best, was simply struggling with an imbalance of brain chemistry.
2006-10-25 06:09:11 · answer #9 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
even if God bring you all the miracles infront of you you will not believe except with a permission from your lord.
[111] And even if We had sent down unto them angels, and the dead had spoken unto them, and We had gathered together all things before their very eyes, they would not have believed, unless Allâh willed, but most of them behave ignorantly.
Quran 6:111
2006-10-25 06:08:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋