I.E., what is more important to you, the truth or what you believe at this moment? I'm not saying that Jesus didn't rise from the dead, so I'm not looking for 'Of course noone will find evidence for that' answers, I'm just curious in the IF question. Without Jesus, our religion is practically the same as Judaism or Islam, would you follow one of those religions? Or would you carry on being a Christian of some sorts? Or would you stop believing in God?
2007-06-09 05:02:37 · 31 answers · asked by totally_idiotic 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wow I didn't realise so many people would be like this! This is really interesting - personally, I think that, as the Bible says, our whole faith should balance on this one piece of history, which can be proved or be proved wrong. I believe there is enough evidence to support the resurrection and the reliability of the Bible, but I'm not just about to believe something blindly because a book tells me too, unless I have reason to believe that book is right.
George D: I believe in a Palestinian Jewish Jesus. You?
2007-06-09 05:14:15 · update #1
As a Christian, if Jesus did not rise from the dead, then for me that says there is no God. I have examined religions, and Christianity was the only one that made sense to me. I did not have to leave science behind in order to believe it.
If there is no Christianity, there would only be science and philosophy for me, and a nagging underlining truth that I was created, we were created for no purpose at all. The madness of the world would only be natural. There would be no concepts of good nor evil. It would puzzle me why the earth seems to support us despite the overwhelming probablility for life to perish momentarily after it exists.
We are talking about a black and white world here, no color. We would live, we would die. The universe would live, the universe would die, either in "fire" or in "ice": in a collapse back to a great fireball, or in an eternal expansion where all structure is dissipated and all energy so spread out that the temperature will be near absolute zero everywhere.
You know it harder being an atheist than a Christian.
2007-06-09 05:22:07 · answer #1 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When people become 'Born again' of the water and the Spirit..as the Bible directs...they can have a relationship with God, by the Holy Spirit, through Jesus.....now what could be simpler than that as an explanation of what someone has to do to become and sustain as a Christian.
When you have that relationship, you know the existence of God/Jesus/Holy Spirit...it is not something imaginary!!
The Bible is the written word of God and as such should bear all Christian Faith..particularly the New Testament which gives us a way to live through the path that Jesus trod and the words He spoke.
So to cut a long story short...IF you are a true Christian then you know God exists...you know Jesus exists and you know the Holy Spirit is here on earth around us. You also know the Bible is the Scripture talked of in 2 Timothy 3v16 and is the true word of God.
You can say whatever you like to criticise the content of my words but you cannot prove them wrong.
God does exist..Jesus is Alive! and the Holy Spirit is here amongst us........if you don't acknowledge that as the truth then take a course...perhaps an Alpha Course and learn. http://www.alpha.org there will be such a course at a Church near you and you may find it on that site.
You have an opportunity here to find out what it is millions of Christians have...don't let it slip away.
Best wishes, Mike.
2007-06-09 09:07:12 · answer #2 · answered by georgiansilver 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If someone could show me empirical evidence that Jesus Christ never resurrected, then I would probably become a full-blown Christian Deist. I've been researching that idea for quite some time, and it matches many of my beliefs about The Bible, and creation ... but it does not support the divinity of Jesus Christ.
Basically, the reason its referred to as Christian Deism is it supports the idea that Jesus' parables and "commandments" were not divine and "revealed from God", but basically a way of sharing the natural laws of the universe. Christian Deism suggests that Jesus followed a "natural" religion, rather than a "revealed" one.
2007-06-09 05:25:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
St. Paul said "If there is no resurrection, then we have no faith."
As Christians, it's all about the resurrection. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then he is just a prophet of sorts and not the Son of God. It would also mean that he lied (or he was crazy)...which means he would not even be a good prophet.
I guess...we'd be Jewish then..worshiping in God and waiting for the Messiah.
2007-06-09 05:09:41 · answer #4 · answered by Misty 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am not sure Jesus rose from the dead and I still believe he existed and that he was a prophet of 'God'. And I am neither, Christian, Muslim or Jew. So it is entirely possible to remove all the trappings of the resurrection and still believe in what Jesus did.
2007-06-09 05:08:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may find a lot of people have doubts but the truth is he did,by the way i do not live by faith any more i do not need to as i know he lives even now.and it is a shame that no matter how many times i try to tell people they refuse to seek him,on saying that it has always being the same even when the Lord himself gave them prove many did not believe their own eyes please try again dont give up ever..
2007-06-11 04:17:35 · answer #6 · answered by Frederick j 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity would exist anyway because he was born of the virgin Mary. The whole point of Jesus was for him to be sacrificed and for his return. If he hypothetically didn't return, Jesus still electrified generations to come with his existance and his teachings. He lived the life he preached and did miracles, unlike Muhammad. Muhammad was the only prophet who did not do miracles. Jesus is more than a prophet. He is the Son of God whose love encompassed all. We still feel it to this day.
2007-06-09 05:15:10 · answer #7 · answered by Lana Lang 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
most religions need a messiah, and this messiah must have done wonderful things. but in the case of christians, maybe the window dressing went a little too far. i belive in dan browns da vinci code though, and that jesus was married etc and has a bloodline that is still here today.
by window dressing, i mean that maybe the early christians needed to establish this religion and created many many wonderful things about jesus that may never have happened. i sure hope for christianitys' sake that it all happened as it was said, cos if it didnt then i think the moral of society would fall and the future may possibly be very dark.
even the early christian religion slaved people and killed people if they didnt believe and even took some symbols from them. the pagans had their soltice taken which is now called christmas. santa claus was really saint nicholas and he was born in turkey.
im not against religion of any kind but there are many things here that do not add up
2007-06-09 05:15:16 · answer #8 · answered by its me :) 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
they did no longer ought to tutor something. no longer the Pharisees of the time of Jesus. the story of the resurrection became fabricated by making use of Paul better than 30 years after Jesus' death. The Jewish Pharisees did no longer have Jesus crucified. The Pharisees does no longer crucify a fellow Jew who by making use of the way accompanied an identical non secular line. The Sadducees have been people who cooperated with the Romans to have Jesus crucified. They have been Roman puppets and helped the Romans to arrest Jesus no longer simply by fact they have been against Jesus yet simply by fact they feared to lose their Roman interest interior the Priesthood. Paul became by no potential a Pharisee. He became a liar. He mentioned "a Pharisee of Pharisees" simply by fact it became handy to declare so as a manner to be common in Jerusalem, the place he led to a havoc preaching approximately Jesus as Messiah, son of God, and that he had resurrected. The Jews very almost killed him for preaching heresy. This that Paul gave up an entire life of luxury to go through persecutions, isn't something in comparison with what the Jews suffered for the time of the Crusades, Inquisition and Holocaust, whilst they might have saved their lives by making use of starting to be Christians. Jesus became taken off the pass and buried interior the nighttime of that Friday. on the top of day after right this moment Sabbath, whilst Mary magdalene went to the Sepulcher, the tomb became empty. After in basic terms 24 hours and the tomb became empty. have you ever asked your self what befell? Joseph of Arimathea got here for the duration of that nighttime of Friday and bumped off Jesus consistent with possibility to his living house to repair his wounds. Saturday late interior the morning, the guards have been set on the tomb to observe and seal the tombstone of an already empty tomb. it incredibly is the place Paul threw the foundations of Christianity: interior the secret of an empty tomb.
2016-10-07 04:18:50 · answer #9 · answered by duktig 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it were true, we would pretty much be Jewish. But I wouldn't stop believing in God, I would just believe Jesus was coming back some day.
2007-06-09 05:06:56 · answer #10 · answered by It'S kAyLa! 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋