This might look like a repeat of the question I asked earlier this month. I am still not completely convinced.
I understand that God is the creator of everything and everyone on this planet earth dead and alive - that I don't question! You can take it to the extreme if you like, everyone is not just known by God, but made by him. But Jesus is uniquely different, not only because of the things he said and did - but also because of the manner in which he came to this earth. He did not come as other people do, and he certainly did not come as the first Adam came. His coming was distinctly different and unique. Even the prophets never came in such a unique manner.
My question therefore still stands, what makes you to be so sure, so certain and so convinced that Jesus Christ is not at all the only begotten son of God and a savior?
2007-02-23 22:35:07 · 18 answers · asked by RealArsenalFan 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because they either doubt the historical existence of Christ, which even the most extreme Atheist scholars rarely stoop to, or they deny his divinity. Like Muslims say that Jesus is just a prophet not as great as Muhammad. Buddhists say Jesus was a great teacher. Secularists who accept his existence say that he was a great teacher whose teachings were corrupted by the Christians.
The only differences are:
1) Those who think he didn't exist
2) Those who think he was merely a great moral teacher
3) Those who think he was the Son of God
4) Those who think he was God himself also
3 & 4 often go together, but some just profess his Sonship and not his actual unity with the Father or the Trinity (though they may accept each person of it, but not that the three are one)
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5) Those who think his power was from an evil spirit
6) Those who think they themselves are Christ
2007-02-23 22:45:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what makes non-christians so sure , so certain, so convinced that Jesus Christ is not the only begotten son of God??
For exactly the same reasons that makes you so sure, so certain, so convinced, (please excuse my presumption here), that Thor was not the son of God (Odin), or Herakles not the son of God (Zeus) etc, etc. were not the followers of these Gods as utterly convinced of the correctness of their beliefs as any Christian alive today? did they not trust implicitly that they they would go to Valhalla or the Elysian Fields or wherever when they died as much as a Christian believes they will go to Heaven?
and even if God's message to mankind was written in letters of fire a mile high across the night sky in every language known to man, would, even then, everyone be convinced?
2007-02-24 00:57:27 · answer #2 · answered by waif 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do not take this as me being rude. You asked a question and I'm willing to explain, okay?
What makes me so sure that Jesus is not the son of God or any other god is that there is no scientific proof of God existing. There is no physical evidence, no DNA, etc. Now, Jesus may have existed as a traveler who may have claimed he was the son of a higher spirit, or others who may have seen him as so perfect may have called him so. Everything was said by word of mouth, and sometimes things that people say arn't always the truth.
2007-02-23 22:42:51 · answer #3 · answered by Blanca 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He's not the ONLY one, you know, just one of them who came down. Also Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed, and any others I forgot are all interelated with Jesus as messengers from God. Why do some people think that the "only" son of God is Jesus? Jesus told people to call him the "Son of Man", not the "Son of God". Things are lost in translation all the time.
I personally don't profess to know what is going on with God, I would never be so presumptuous to think that. This is just how I live my life. I also don't try to force my beliefs on others. God gave man free will. To mess with that is just plain evil.
2007-02-23 22:45:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't accept that Jesus Christ is the son of God because I'm Jewish. The Messiah, for us, has not come yet (and I don't believe he/she ever will). My heart and soul tell me that Jesus was not anyone's son but Joseph's and not a savior to me. Why can't you understand that? I don't go around asking Christians why they believe that Jesus is the son of God; why can't you people just stop this?
2007-02-24 07:43:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because of the evidence, which shows:
1) People are prone to make up gods. We have ample evidence from the history of many religions for this.
2) People are prone to believe things that are made up. Human psychology gives us examples of people making up invisible friends.
3) The writings about Jesus were written decades after he died, if he existed at all. All of the supposed miracles were things added on after he died. This is especially true of the writings about Jesus' early years, which were written about even later than Saul / Paul's writings that never mentioned them.
4) The Bible contradicts what we know about the world. It is obvious from studying it that the people writing the stories came from an earlier, more primitive culture.
5) Much of the Bible is just rehashing of other earlier myths.
2007-02-23 22:37:54 · answer #6 · answered by nondescript 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You're kidding, right?
Look at what you've written here - you've got wild claims, and nothing whatsoever to back them up.
Where you are most emphatic, you are also most obviously wrong: Jesus came to this Earth by being born. So did I. So did you, by the way. Nothing remotely "different and unique" about it.
You really have a lot to learn.
2007-02-23 22:37:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because the Bible says so. If you believe that the Bible is the Word of God, then you must accept Jesus as the Son of God. If you believe one part of the Bible, then you must believe all of the Bible. The Bible is not a cafeteria menu---it is a single Word, and you must accept all of the letters of that Word in order to believe in that Word. If you believe that the word "the" is spelled T-H-E, then you must accept the T, the H and the E and accept them all at once and in the order in which they appear. The same holds true for the Bible. The Bible must be taken on faith. Christianity is a faith-based system of belief. If there is no faith, then there is no Christian experience. Science cannot prove what you are asking---you must accept it by faith. Faith is believing without seeing. In Hebrews, God says that without faith it is impossible to please him.
2007-02-23 22:46:00 · answer #8 · answered by Preacher 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Every one has a right to take his small mind's hypothesis to be the only Truth in the World !!
You wish to believe...go ahead
But why force others to follow your belief??
A frog in the well thinks, his well is the biggest water body on earth, as he has not seen lakes and oceans outside his well.
Be happy..
2007-02-23 23:23:24 · answer #9 · answered by ۞Aum۞ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
For starters, we've faith the Bible which teaches that the father the Son and the Holy Ghost are separate and diverse persons. right it fairly is without doubt one in all the examples: "Jesus saith unto her, touch me no longer; for i'm no longer yet ascended to my Father: yet flow to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." (John 20:17) Jesus and His disciples have a similar Father and a similar God! Can somebody forget approximately approximately this verse and declare to have faith the Bible? we are no longer Catholics and we are no longer Protestants, and opposite to what one poster pronounced, we've under no circumstances tried to latest ourselves as portion of "Orthodox Christianity", nor can we use the term "Trinity". We latest ourselves as Christians, no longer Protestants or Evengelicals or "Born lower back Christians" or Catholics. We have faith that the organic gospel that Christ taught, and the church He widely used, have been lost from the earth long previously any of the above religions have been created. A Christian is somebody who believes in Christ, in simple terms like a Buddhist is somebody who believes in Buddha. We have faith in Jesus Christ, so as that on my own makes us Christian. we are no longer required to settle for any specific doctrine taught by potential of different religions to be properly categorized as a Christian. certainly, the Christian international needs to renowned that there are a number of diverse church homes which declare to be Christian, that have very diverse techniques approximately Christ, even in the Protestant church homes. Please do no longer think of that through fact we've faith that Jesus Christ is the Son of God that we are no longer Christians. "yet those are written, that ye might have faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have existence via his call. " (John 20:31) "Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. " (a million John 4:15) We confess that Jesus is the Son of God!
2016-10-16 09:21:06 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋