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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you find so hard to believe about Jesus being God?[/quote]

Think of it this way. What do you find so hard about Noah being God? What do you find so hard about David Koresh being God? What do you find so hard about Krishna being God? What do you find so hard about Osiris being God? What do you find so hard about Gaia being God?

We're raised to believe that certain things are "true" and others are impossible. But when you really think about it, all of the above are just as plausible (or implausible) as Jesus being God. [/quote]
OP has already embraced the idea of a personal creator God who made man in His image (and not evolved). OP accepts Christ as a great teacher. OP accepts a lot of Biblical morality and already has a conservative view of sin. What OP describes is pretty close to traditional Christianity. Yet OP stops short of accepting Christ as God, as the Bible teaches. I'm just really curious why OP finds that additional step too far to go.

Regarding Noah: Noah never claimed to be God, and Noah wasn't perfect. David Koresh? Dead, so not God. [b]Krishna, Osiris, Gaia? Please.[/b] The Bible recounts man as made in the image of God, and Christ as God coming to earth to live among His creation in sympathy and identification with man, and dying for man's sins (because man rejected God) because God loves His creation. These aren't hard concepts to grasp, and [b]a God that creates man in His image and comes to live among His creation makes a lot more sense[/b] than anything else you mentioned.[/quote]

Krishna and Osiris are also human forms in God's image that came to live on earth. Why can't you understand that?
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Neither Krishna nor Osiris come from monotheistic beliefs. They certainly are not taught as a loving creator God in the flesh come to sacrifice for sinful man. One is purple (or blue). The other is green. Your sophistry is specious, and I don't think you actually believe in either one.[/quote]

Not pp, but coming from a Muslim upbringing, Christianity does not at all look like a monotheistic religion to me - it is so much more like Hinduism (different divine components) than a "true" monotheistic religion.

But it just goes to show that what we're conditioned to believe as "true" or "possible" or "real" is heavily clouded by our own upbringing. At the end of the day, all of it is as truthful and believable as the other.

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Some people change religions as adults or find religion for the first time as adults.  But you still have a point, because not all people become the same religion as adults, suggesting that religion is very personal -- what you've learned as a child or chosen (or rejected) as an adult.  If there were one true religion that God wanted us all to be, you'd think he'd be more clear about it.[/quote]
Seriously? God came to earth as Jesus Christ, who performed miracles and raised Himself from the dead to show that He was God. God foretold this through the Hebrew scriptures, so that we could believe it as well. He gave us the Gospels to recount the life of Jesus, and He gave us eyewitnesses to Christ's life so that we can believe. He also gave us a belief system diametrically opposed to every other -- that we are made right through God's love by our faith in Christ, and that no amount of our own works and righteousness will ever be good enough, to free us from having to perform for God. The LORD has made it abundantly clear, but if you reject it, you shouldn't blame God.[/quote]

Remember there are those who feel exactly as you do about The Quran, The Upanishads, The Book of Mormon etc... And also Jesus is not the first legend to have been born of a virgin, raised the dead, rose from the dead himself, performed miracles et. al. He is just the legend with those mythic elements that has endured in the west. If you would like to start down the road of learning what your other (Non Christian) brothers and sisters on this earth believe about divinity I can recommend some fantastic sources, many of whom were Christian ministers and/or Christian from birth. They took it on themselves to gain an understanding of other religious beliefs in order to try and break down one of the biggest barriers that separates us as human beings.

But as with many of these conversations I assume you will say that all is as god had intended it and all a part of his plan to have us use or free will to rebel against him and turn the world into what it is now. Still, I'm always hopeful so I offer.[/quote]

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