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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To me, Jesus’ message seems so credible precisely because it is the ultimate humane approach in our modern, interconnected world. I don’t find religious concepts of favorite peoples or the “other” who is an enemy to be helpful in this age when we insult or even nuke each other with a finger on a button.

[b]I find “love your enemy” and “turn the other cheek” to be great words to live by. [/b]Even if Tacitus didn’t bother to write them down or some DCUMer who knows little about Christianity complains that nobody can prove Paul met Jesus or the gospel writers weren’t making it all up.

If Jesus had said something like, “you’re my favorite group of people, now go out and conquer everybody else,” then I’d have doubts. (Obviously I think some historical interpretations of Christianity have been really untrue to the faith.)[/quote]

So do I. But that's just philosophy.  Has nothing to do with whether Jesus was the son of God, or got resurrected or other basic tenants of the faith[/quote]

For that we have the Gospels and Paul. You claim these aren’t “good enough” because they were written shortly or a few years after his death. Despite the fact that these are pretty incredible sources given the difficulty in finding anything contemporaneous from that period. Or historians’ inability to explain why Jesus’ followers believed so strongly in him that they were still willing to die for his message decades after his death. Methinks that if we found a contemporaneous WAPO account of Jesus’ daily doings, you’d call it “fake news.”

Unfortunately for you, over a billion Christians find these sources not only adequate, but wholly sufficient. You’ll just have to suck up that fact.[/quote]

The problem isn't that they were written "shortly or a few years" after his death.  The problem is they were written by people who were not there at the time, did not know Jesus and could not have known what they were talking about.  And as you (I think it was you) have said - you only want to believe in certain parts of these gospels and disregard the rest.  So I guess you don't find these books "good enough" either.[/quote]

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