Christians ?

Question

If you found compelling evidence that Jesus was only a man and indeed had a wife and child. In all sincerity could you handle it? Do you need the idea of a god and heaven?

Answer 1

Ummmmm nice try....keep dreaming...

Here's another example of a lost soul trying to justify his/her crappy beliefs...You will never ever imagine "evidence" like this exists because it's way beyond your power....

Baby, this question is so jacked up , you sound like a jackass...and the Bible said that asses could talk... there's your proof!

Answer 2

I'll answer the second question first, if you don't mind. I don't need the idea of God and heaven in the sense that I'm too emotionally or intellectually weak to face life without them. I believe because the empirical evidence is too compelling not to believe. I didn't become a Christian because I was afraid to go to hell. I became one because of a rational decision based upon the facts.

To find evidence that Jesus was only a man and not God would require more than one documentary or study. It would have to be verified by several different sources. It would also have to be proven to be an explanation for every other fact that ties Jesus to God. I'd have to reevaluate all the previous evidence to determine where the fact deviated.

Answer 3

Jesus was a man, but my faith says that he is also fully God. Science cannot prove that part of it. I know that I simply have to rely on faith for that part of it. I'm okay with that, and yes, I can handle it. My faith is stronger than that. As far as a child and a wife, that doesn't bother me in the least. I don't think that makes him any less God. It shows that he was Jewish. Jewish men were usually married. That was the culture. No one sits back and says that that disicples weren't married because it is never stated that they were or weren't in scripture. So, why do that same thing with Christ? Because it's not written in scripture doesn't mean that it didn't happen.

In a way, yes, I need the idea of a god. I believe in the Christian God. I feel God's work in my life. Others may say that it's just life, but that is okay with me. It doesn't shed a darkness on my faith at all. That God gives me peace and love, and I think every human needs that. How they are getting it is really up to that person to find out.

Answer 4

I don't know what Jesus having a wife and child has to do with anything. That does not prove to me that he was not what he said he was. On the contrary, I happen to believe that it is very possible that Jesus was married and actually tend to believe that that was more probably the case.

As to your true point, I suspect that you are talking about the tomb that some are claiming was the tomb containing the body of Jesus and his family. I'm sorry, there can be no evidence that the tomb contains the body of the same Jesus who is the focus of the New Testament.

Do I need the idea of God and Heaven? Absolutely, if I wish to go there in the next life. Of course, if I had no desire to go there, then I would have no reason to believe in them. It's that simple. I want to go there. God has given me plenty of reason to believe that He is there and that He does cares about me personally. I want to be a part of His family and He has told me that I can, so therefore I will do all in my power to attain that goal.

Answer 5

If Jesus were only a man, with a wife and child, it wouldn't change the truth of His teachings a bit. Truth is one. If an "angel" came and spoke all that Jesus spoke, the truth would be identical. People are more concerned with Jesus's relationship to God than they are with their own relationship to God. It makes no difference if Jesus was God, God's Son, or an ordinary man. The truth is the same.

Answer 6

This would mean the Christian faith is a lie. I couldn't handle it. I don't know what I'd do, but I can't fathom this being true. Also, if you're talking about the show on the Discovery Channel last week, that tomb is nothing new. It was "discovered" several years ago, and most historians don't believe it to be Jesus' tomb (not the Biblical Jesus anyway). I'd believe the historians over James Cameron.

Answer 7

okay, this may not trun out like it's in my head, but...
I need God, not neccessarily a reward. For me, the greatest gift I can recieve is the friendship/brothership with my own Lord. Even if there were no eternity as a reward, I'd still walk in God.

and could I handle it? probably. But I wouldn't believe it any way. Jesus having a son is as likely as the sun being made of ice.

Answer 8

No human evidence could ever compel me to believe such a lie. God's Truth in His Word is all the evidence I need, and it far surpasses any pathetic human attempt to prove otherwise.

Answer 9

It's the "compelling evidence" that poses a problem for your little thought experiment.

Allow me to rephrase it. "Christians, if you found compelling evidence that the universe is actually billions of years old, and that humans and all other species evolved over millions of years through the process of natural selection instead of by God creating them instantaneously in six days, could you handle it?"

No, of course they couldn't handle it. But rather than saying "No, I can't handle it, please put me back in the dark ages before science destroyed my happy little world-view", they simply reject the evidence, no matter how compelling.

Answer 10

I wouldn't believe it. Jesus has done so much in my life there is no way He could be just a man. And the Bible would have said if he'd been married....don't you think one of those 12 disciples would have said something about a wife complaining that He didn't spend any time with her.

Answer 11

That will never happen to me.
I have Found out "Too Much" that Jesus is fo' Real.

But, I will give you This.
If -- I SAID IF (not yelling, hehe) there wasn't a GOD, I would Probably be Dead and Rotting in the Ground from Alcohol Consumption---MUCHO (not yelling, hehe) Alcohol Consumption.

Ditto.................