Jesus is the light,truth and way! Jesus is the way too heaven and everlasting life! Jesus is Lord of Lords and King of Kings! He is the Almighty! Jesus loves you all! praying for the lost!
2007-08-14 10:52:48 · 12 answers · asked by ANGEL HORSE 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
reality is the only way to a successful life. delusions are for the weak.
2007-08-14 10:58:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
If Jesus is god and the son, part of the holy trinity, why would he have to pray for my sins considering that he is judge of such behavior? Also, who would Jesus be praying to?
2007-08-14 17:57:08 · answer #2 · answered by x2000 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
False hope != hope. Also:
Jesus probably never existed because there is no contemporary evidence of his existence (that is, nothing about him recorded during his alleged life)--the 'soonest' evidence we have is from Saul of Tarsus, who wrote about Jesus at LEAST 40 years after his alleged death.
Not only that, but Saul writes with NO apparent knowledge of most of the alleged events of Jesus's life that are mentioned in the Gospels (which came long after Saul's writings, keep in mind). He mentions only the last bits about Jesus--him being crucified and rising up to heaven. However, Saul makes it quite clear that he is not talking about an earthly Jesus, but a mythical one, and places the crucifixion etc. in a mythical realm, not earth. The closest he comes to mentioning a Jesus who 'walked among us' is when he mentions that (paraphrasing, bear with me) 'if Jesus lived on earth, he would not be a priest' or something like that.
Yup--that is how shaky the foundation is. Saul's account is the strongest (because his account comes chronologically closest to Jesus's alleged death) link between Jesus's alleged life and the gospels which go into great detail about it. It's the strongest much in the same way that molten lead is the most refreshing drink to be found on Venus.
So basically, we got Saul's stuff, which strongly clashes with the gospels it preceded, and then we've got nothing for several years after that (next account is the Gospel of Mark (which is attributed to Mark but is actually an anonymous work; further supporting this is the fact that the consensus is that this gospel was written in the 60s or 70s CE--there's no way someone alive during Jesus's alleged life would still be alive in those times).
Then suddenly we have all kinds of details about Jesus's life that just seem to pop up out of nowhere, and the majority of the 'major ones' coincide HEAVILY with other myths of the time (which preceded the Gospels as well). An example of a myth that is older than Jesus's but has an extraordinary number of similarities is of the Egyptian man-god Horus (source 3; be sure to check it out--the number of parallels is truly jaw-dropping).
Anyone objectively looking at the combination of the 'sudden details' with the uncanny number of parallels to other, older myths of the time would quickly come to the very fair conclusion that the writers of the gospels were 'storytelling' as opposed to recording history when they wrote them. Their goal was to convert people, not to document history, which is why they were writing _gospels_ in the first place.
Also, there is the fact that there are dozens of uncanny siimilarities betwee the Gospels' accounts of his life and the myths of other man-gods of the time, like Horus.
Now...is it any wonder that, when taking everything into consideration, it is perfectly reasonable for one to be quite skeptical of the earthly existence of Jesus Christ as the Bible describes him (it's not that he COULDN'T have existed, but when you take a step back and look at everything objectively, it's quite obvious that it is extremely unlikely).
P.S. Theologians generally agree that the other three gospels in the Bible are clearly derived from Mark, which is why I didn't mention them specifically.
2007-08-14 17:55:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 3⤋
Did you know Jesus is a dead man turned to supernatural myth?
2007-08-14 17:56:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If I went out to get a pack of cigarettes and said I'd be right back 2000 years ago would you still be waiting?
2007-08-14 17:56:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
There is nothing Jesus can give that is not found within...like he, we should look within.
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-08-14 17:58:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
what? there is no hope in Jesus? the letters H O P or even E arent even in his Name!
2007-08-14 17:59:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
if there is anything of jesus left today, then the only thing IN jesus is worms.
2007-08-14 17:58:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
i'm sure hope and jesus love each other very much, and will get married soon.
2007-08-14 17:55:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
thank you for what I presume are good intentions.
I respect your right to choose a path right for you; all I ask is the same respect.
2007-08-14 17:56:37 · answer #10 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋