Yes. Any other historical event with so much written documentation would be accepted as true. That's on top of all the archaeological evidence. Why would the early Christians falsify the whole thing? Because they desperately wanted to be hunted down and killed? Why would they falsify a messiah that teaches self-denial and forgiveness? If they wanted to decieve people they would have made him something everybody would be attracted to, like a mighty warrior or something.
Yea he lived. No question. He worked Miracles. I believe it. But is packaging your whole life into worshipping through specifically his name the answer?
Is tend towards a gnostic view, but feel it could be a distraction
I'll preface this by saying there's nothing I can do to force you to believe anything, but I like talking about this stuff so I'll offer things to consider. Take them or leave them.
Why jesus and not somebody else? Well who else would it be?
There were prophecies about jesus in the old testament that were hundreds of years old. It's basically mathematically impossible that any one person would fulfill them. Yet he did.
The old testament is full of references to the arrival of somebody like Jesus. If you look at the names of Adam's descendants they even spell out the gospel. You don't have to arrange it or anything, it goes straight down the blood line.
Name: Meaning
Seth: Appointed
Enos: Mortal
Cainan: Sorrow
Mahalaleel: Blessed God
Jared: Come down
Enoch: Teacher or teaching
Methuselah: His death will bring
Lamech: Despairing
Noah: Comfort
Mortals are appointed to sorrow but the blessed God came down teaching that his death will bring comfort to the despairing.
And it just so happens that Noah was the last member of his age before the flood. As if the flood was a period at the end of the sentence.
I personally could only see stuff like this so many times before admitting that it must be true. As an honest thinker you have to admit when the evidence has you beat. That's why I think most people who don't believe in it have probably not honestly examined it for themselves, or they just don't want to be bothered with all the changes that believing would demand. There are entire books about all the things the bible got right. If nothing else, the book should be regarded as the spookiest document the world has ever seen. And the whole thing is pointing to Jesus. What other religion even comes close to that? That's how I see it
Excellent.
So do you ‘worship’ Jesus and follow strict rules as interpreted through his teachings?
Like would you ever have anal sex with a woman?
How are you different with Jesus as opposed to without?
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