man had destroyed religion back then and wanted to put it back on the right track.
2006-11-30 21:03:16 · 18 answers · asked by Mr Hex Vision 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am not an atheists, but not religious either. I believe the bible is an old book, and maybe the translation was lost in a few places. I think atheists dont spend much time thinking about Jesus, or the bible. Atheists are good people although spiritual relgion from an old book dosent seem to interest them. I think atheists concern themselves with what is happening at the moment, what is effecting society today, and the direction that society is heading. Although to answer your question from my own point of view, I believe that all indivduals throughout history have tried to put humanity on the right track, whether they where wrong or they where right, whether they had a huge influence or a small influence, people try to do something... what that is, I can not explain, I dont think man had ever tried to destroy anything other than himself. For what reason any man would try to destroy themselves or another is beyond my rationalizaiton. Jesus was a very important image for many religions, and still for many people, cultures, and relgions around the world today. Was he an activist? Against who? Against what? and why? I think you are smart to suggest this, because it creates a new opinion, instead of spritual leader, does this theory turn that era political? I would say yes. Poltical movements are far greater of importance in current day to day situations than religious movements. Historians will disagree with me, I have heard that they believe people from that time where more sensitive, and depended on religion, although I think it is still about the same today as it has always been. Religious movements? what is a religious movement? Dont hurt others, dont be bad, be good. All religions state these things, but a religious movement would not cause the same impact that Jesus made if it was not poltical.
2006-11-30 21:35:44 · answer #1 · answered by Veronica 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus preached goodness, love and all the things that people generally do not do. He probably also preached against Rome and this got him into trouble with the authorities like Pilot. Pontius Pilot was a bastard who acted very much like Hitler. He would condemn men to death in a wink. Jesus never knew what Christianity was. He certainly didn't start it when he was alive. The religion began 30-40 years after Christ died. The original followers of Jesus were all Jews and were as devout as He. They looked at him as the Messiah which is reasonable. There were many Messiahs in history and none were the son of God.
You should read several books on Jesus which give the scholarly and reasonably historical (which could or could not be true) version of his life and death.
2006-12-01 05:37:00 · answer #2 · answered by wunderkind 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John 3:16
2006-12-01 05:50:36 · answer #3 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
christianity happened to be in an area where people could write and history could be accounted. same as china with buddhism, india with hinduism, and the arab world with islam.
jesus just happened to be a forward thinking guy who was at the right place at the right time. and he said the things people wanted to hear.
if the prophet mohammed (rest his soul) came along there then, guess what would george bush be wearing on his head today? a turban.
jesus was a smart man, and he night have taken what he was brought up, the belief in god, and marketed it in such a way that it was a winner. jesus was a spindoctor. whether he knew it or or.
but he ended up suffering for it.
2006-12-01 07:04:39 · answer #4 · answered by african_woman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's reasonably good corroborative evidence that Christ existed, but none anywhere that he was divine, the son of God, or claimed to be. Some of his teaching was about redirecting religion but for most of history the division between religion and politics has been very slight indeed. So much of what concerned him was about politics as well. I suspect, from the impression he left on people, that he was a good man, and people would do well to follow his example. Instead, they conjure up supernatural fantasies around him, claim absolute immunity from responsibility, and consider themselves superior. Christ would not have tolerated that for one second, I believe.
2006-12-01 05:15:46 · answer #5 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Actually, this is what many if not most early Christians believed until around 200 AD (?) when a Christian council of bishops decided that Jesus was God, and poof! all of a sudden he was no longer a prophet, but now a God.
2006-12-01 05:06:58 · answer #6 · answered by niko 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I think that Jesus was a man. I believe he was a con man, and a pathological liar. He was, quite simply, his era's Pat Robertson.
If you read through history, you will find that his "ministry" is nothing more than that of an exorcist. Later, his activities closely followed that of Apollonius of Tyana. Apollonius was the Greek pagan version of a messiah who lived in Jesus time. He was born after J.C., but began his works BEFORE J.C. became active as a Rabbi.
Penn and Teller would have exposed Jesus as a second rate fraud in the very streets of Jerusalem if they had been around back then.
-SD-
2006-12-01 05:24:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
most likely Jesus did exist but all this zombie stuff about coming back from the dead its very Hollywood the whole story is blindingly colorful ....and you really think we need religion I think we would be better of with out it.....
religion worked for a while now its time to move on
2006-12-01 05:18:21 · answer #8 · answered by murphys_lawyers 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i don't believe that Jesus ever said he was the son of god. there is no factual historical evidence that says that he ever claimed to be the son of god. i do believe he was a prophet.
bear in mind that all of the people who say "its in the bible" don't understand that the books claiming this were written tens to hundreds of years after his death.
also, an interesting fact: the hebrew word for girl was translated into the greek word for "virgin" by accident. jesus was not born from a virgin, it was a translation error.
2006-12-01 05:07:06 · answer #9 · answered by odieman_3 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sort of. I think Jesus was a sage, like the Buddha and others. I think his "divinity" is a metaphor, not a literal, supernatural truth.
2006-12-01 05:05:49 · answer #10 · answered by jesuspimper 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋