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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read the minister's book review linked above. It uses the well-worn metaphor of fingers pointing to the moon. But God is not the moon. [b]Marcus Borg is a Christian heretic[/b]. Read at your own risk. [/quote]

In your opinion.  There are lots of different kinds of Christians and many admire him greatly.[/quote]

+1.  Geez.  The fire and brimstone people are so tedious.[/quote]
Just like the new-thought "Christians" and the Horus/Mithras/Osiris folks. Someone is wrong. Are you sure you know who it is?[/quote]

Well I'm pretty sure the Mithras people are wrong, because there's [b]historical evidence that Mithras appeared among the centurions a couple of centuries after Jesus' death[/b]. But for the rest, I've read Borg and like many of his arguments. [/quote]

Really -- sightings of a god?  I didn't know historians did that.  I thought they were limited to the material world.   That is, they could report that Roman Centurions said they saw Mithras, but they couldn't actually report a sighting of a supernatural being.

At any rate, the fact that Roman centurions saw Mithras 200 years after Christ doesn't mean Mithras didn't exist as a god long before that in other places.  People are still reporting sightings of Jesus - and Mary too.  That doesn't mean that Jesus and Mary just started to exist.  Everyone knows they been around  over 2,000 years.[/quote]

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