Yes, I believe too!! Amen!!
2007-08-19 07:57:53
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answer #1
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answered by fairgirlbluezap 3
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"Do you believe in Jesus?
I do. Jesus is the son of God and an amazing man who cured people and saved their lives when they didn't deserve it, but he showed grace. We as humans are (so) full of mistakes (that) we don't deserve the love Jesus blesses us with. But guess what, he forgave."
A man who came to be called Jesus, an itinerant preacher along dusty, sandy paths in the Middle East two thousand years ago, did in fact exist. He was executed by the Romans, his remains were probably buried somewhere, or, for all we know, left on the wooden poles to which he was nailed, as was the Roman custom, and what was not consumed by critters, rotted away. He 'ascended' no where, that is a rather silly fantasy. He was a man and by no stretch of the imagination a god.
2007-08-19 15:29:42
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answer #2
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answered by Yank 5
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I believe in God and I believe that Jesus is a prophet and messenger of God. I believe in the miracles he performed by God's leave. He is the real Messiah who will return to kill the anti Christ, unite Muslims and Christians and bring peace to the world.
May the peace and blessings of God be upon Prophet Jesus.
2007-08-19 15:06:23
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answered by ¸.•*´`*•.¸ ℓανєη∂єr ¸.•*´`*•.¸ 6
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I believe he was a remarkably charismatic and benevolent man, and that he did physically exist at one point. Whether or not he was the son of God, I'm not so sure of. I have no proof that he was, and given all the people that have claimed to be of Divine lineage in the world, it does kind of damage his case. Likewise I have no proof he was lying either, so I can't ultimately make a call on that one.
2007-08-19 15:01:53
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answer #4
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answered by P.I. Joe 6
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No Kyra he was not the Son of God. Those words and others like it have been put into his mouth by christians for political reasons.
Jesus was a prophet who brought the message of God to the people, some rejected him and some followed him. Those that followed corrupted his message, which is why record numbers abandon their Christian beliefs. Shame on men who think they know better than God Almighty.
2007-08-19 14:58:57
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answered by hmmmm_maybe 1
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You think that's amazing? I think it's amazing that most Atheist know the bible and the history of religion far more than 90% of christians... INCLUDING Christian clergy.
The first known writings of Christianity are the early Epistles of Paul (Saul of Tarsus)... the later epistles attributed to Paul are clearly forgeries. Someone reading these epistles without prior knowledge of the Gospels would NOT get the idea that any of it had anything to do with an actual person who had existed in the recent historical past. Paul's early writings are ENTIRELY consistent with the OTHER 'salvation cults' which were popular at the time... Mithras, Adonis, etc. They all shared common mythological themes... divine father, magical conception, virgin birth, horrible death (nailed or hung on a tree), resurection, etc. All of these things took place not on earth, but in 'spiritual' realms. The 'Christ cult' was merely a Judaized version of these myths, cobbled together as a result of midrashic reinterpretation of scripture under the influence of 'modern' Hellenistic thought... Greek philosophies that had been introduced into the region, primarily 'Stoic' and 'Cynic'.
Members of the non-existent Jesus' non-existent posse had NOTHING to do with writing the Gospels. The first Gospel (Mark) was written near the end of the first century. We know this because it makes reference to the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem... a historical event which occurred in 70 AD. Mark is pretty lame, as far as gospels go. Personally, I think that Mark was written to capitalize on the unexpected successes that the Christ-cult missionaries had experienced preaching to pagans. At is core, the Christ-myth was so similar to the pagan savior-myths that the pagans had no trouble accepting it... except that they interpreted the mythical Jesus to be an actual person... much to the surprise of the missionaries. Mark's gospel was most likely a piece of fiction designed to invent details of an earthly life for their mythological character. It most certainly was NOT 'truth', or 'history'.
The gospels of Matthew and Luke came somewhat later... some scholars think after the beginning of the 2nd century. They were both written independently... but both used Mark as a template, and both incorporated 'sayings' from the so-called 'Q-document'... a Judaized collection of bon-mots from the Greek 'Cynic' school of philosophy. The authors of these documents added additional fictional scenes to the sketchy Mark, to create settings in which they could put these sayings 'into the mouth of Jesus'. This is the source of many of the contradictions in the gospels... same sayings... different settings.
The gospel of John is thought to have appeared around the middle of the 2nd century... around 150 AD. The gospels did not become widely known in the Christian community until around 250 AD.
There are absolutely NO contemporaneous accounts of Jesus' existence... none... nada... zero... zilch... and the Romans were compulsive record-keepers.
Interestingly... and not counting the supposed 40-days that Jesus spent 'in the wilderness'... the bible accounts for just about 3-weeks in the alladed 'life of Jesus'.
The gospels and other writings were not codified as 'canon' until the 4th century at the Council of Nicea, under the auspices of Constantine... a pagan worshipper of Sol Evictus... the sun god.
2007-08-19 15:01:14
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answered by Anonymous
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Of course I do. I'm a Baha'i -- and Baha'u'llah said wonderful things about Jesus:
"Know thou that when the Son of Man yielded up His breath to God, the whole creation wept with a great weeping. By sacrificing Himself, however, a fresh capacity was infused into all created things. Its evidences, as witnessed in all the peoples of the earth, are now manifest before thee. The deepest wisdom which the sages have uttered, the profoundest learning which any mind hath unfolded, the arts which the ablest hands have produced, the influence exerted by the most potent of rulers, are but manifestations of the quickening power released by His transcendent, His all-pervasive, and resplendent Spirit.
We testify that when He came into the world, He shed the splendor of His glory upon all created things. Through Him the leper recovered from the leprosy of perversity and ignorance. Through Him, the unchaste and wayward were healed. Through His power, born of Almighty God, the eyes of the blind were opened, and the soul of the sinner sanctified.
Leprosy may be interpreted as any veil that interveneth between man and the recognition of the Lord, his God. Whoso alloweth himself to be shut out from Him is indeed a leper, who shall not be remembered in the Kingdom of God, the Mighty, the All-Praised. We bear witness that through the power of the Word of God every leper was cleansed, every sickness was healed, every human infirmity was banished. He it is Who purified the world. Blessed is the man who, with a face beaming with light, hath turned towards Him."
(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 85)
2007-08-19 15:00:55
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answered by world_gypsy 5
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Do I believe he existed and was a good eprson..yes I do
Do I think he "saved me" or is the son of God...no more than I am.
2007-08-19 15:05:00
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answered by Anonymous
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No.
And all those "miracles" were nothing more than CPR. Check the descriptions.
God doesn't exist so therefore he cannot be the son of god.
2007-08-19 15:02:47
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answered by Anonymous
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There is a contradiction in the Bible about when he was born, and many other things to make one doubt that he ever existed. One part dates his birth 4BCE or before, and another dates it at 7CE. That is at least eleven years difference.
2007-08-19 15:03:05
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answered by miyuki & kyojin 7
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I believe he was a person.
But the son of "god" I doubt.
2007-08-19 15:16:40
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answered by Anonymous
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