But you're still dead, though. We don't rescind your death certificate.
One soul for infinite souls?
Titanic was an unsinkable boat. And then it sank.
He broke actual commandments, though, and did other bad things that weren't considered sins then but does now, like racism.
Still waiting for someone to get me a coroner's report.
He broke actual commandments, though, and did other bad things that weren't considered sins then but does now, like racism.
That's more likely because nobody would show up. Even his most loyal followers had run off.
Doesn't explain OT people being brought back.
I'm sure the Romans thought so. I wonder how they would feel knowing there are people who do it for fun every Easter.
He could've avoided it by heeding his own commands to keep things hushed, but his ego just wouldn't let him stop making large public appearances.
Jesus said God would only reward us in heaven for those things we did in secret. Jesus did his stuff publicly usually, so he gets NOTHING.
His will was irrelevant. Roman will was all that really mattered at that point.
Agreed. He supposedly, without evidence of course, was in heaven prior to birth and returned to it after death. Thus, his life was technically a sacrifice, not his death, which only restored him to his place.
He was getting angrier and angrier being around a bunch of faithless idiots who didn't understand him. His own family didn't like him. He bragged about wanting out, about dying. It was suicide by cop.
IN THAT DAY, and God lied.
Explain the gravestones of Christians.
So, everyone asks God for forgiveness day in and day out for a couple thousand years, but God still has to go "Oh, yeah, right, Junior paid for it"? Has He not learned to memorize it by now?
I canceled my ADT at my previous house 'cause no one lives there and I need it bought so I don't have to fool with it anymore. I still kept getting bills after it was canceled.
Christianity is the same thing for me: keeps billing me after the services are done.
Abel is proof that if you obey God and are supposedly pious, you're gonna die anyway.
It only meant someone anointed. Lots of messiahs in the bible, even non-Jewish ones, like Cyrus of Persia. It only means God picked you for some story mission. That's it.
She lay down SOMETHING for Egypt, all right.
Yes. The Way is the Way. The Tour Guide is irrelevant. You're either on the road or you're not.
And it's a lie, because I still have to repent of my sins. Even Jesus notes throughout his ministry we will get our just desserts. We reap what we sow, right?
What evidence is there that Jesus' death affected your sins? He died because the Romans killed him. The end.
I feel the dharmic religions, while not perfect either, do a much better job at getting the job done than Jesus ever did.
But why? What does killing a goat or a dove of a cow or a human do for ANYONE other than make a nice BBQ?
Ten bucks says hungry priests who weren't allowed by Mosaic law to work for a living demanded sacrifices, not God. God doesn't need to eat, right?
He even said he came here for Jews. I'm not Jewish. I'd be the first he'd call a dog, like he did that other gentile woman.
Lots of people claimed that in the bible.
In my dreams, I can think outside the box. Falling to my doom? The ground below me becomes a picture, like those 3D chalk drawings people do on roads and stuff. What was an endless fall becomes a fall of a few feet, max, because the fall is transformed into an illusion.
What causes us to sin should be cut off and thrown away. Christianity taught me to sin, so I cut it off and threw it away.
I honor God by doing what He said to do.
I know narcissists do that, but why would any moral person do such a thing?
He said people who call other people fools will burn in hell. He called people fools. Out of his own judgement he deserves hell.
There were no witnesses. The disciples had run off so they weren't there to see him die and prove he was dead. Jesus was alone in a tomb and the soldiers supposedly fell asleep. No witnesses to any resurrection. The resurrected Jesus was mistaken for other people by the people who hung out with him daily for a year or so. His wounds upon resurrection don't match what all supposedly happened to him. He only has a few easily reproduced puncture wounds when he SHOULD look like ground meat.
People say that to distract from the story's reality, that the Romans lumped him with a bunch of religious terrorists treasonous to the emperor and killed him.