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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure Jesus would be impressed with your quick capitulation and microscopically thin skin.  Don't think things would have gone very far in the early days of the Church if the apostles had taken a similar tack.  How are non-believers supposed to take this stuff seriously when even its most comitted adherents don't?[/quote]

But I have yet to see a single PP who does not have faith in Jesus actually take him on directly.  That's the difficulty.  Instantly, there is talk of Poseidon and the FSM (ad nauseum), but not Jesus.  Lord, liar, lunatic, guru, myth?  Rise from the dead or not?  Specifics?  Never.

If Christ did not begin Christianity, who did?  Paul knew the stakes.  He knew everything rested on the truth of the divinity of Christ:

"if Christ has not been raised, our proclamation has been in vain, and your faith has been in vain.  We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that He raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised...If Christ has not been raised, then your faith is futile, and you are still in your sins.  Then those who also have died in Christ have perished.  If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.". (1 Cor 15:14-19)

And doubters need to drop the red herring that "if Christ, heaven for Christians, everyone else is screwed!". Quite the opposite.  If Christ, then heaven is POSSIBLE for everyone, and those with the most knowledge of him will have the most responsibility for their actions.  (Watch out, unrepentant heretical/abusive priests.)  Again, Jesus was a Jew in the Roman empire, and IF Christ, then he was ALSO God, the Creator of all, Who wrote His Word on our hearts.  So without ever hearing the name "Jesus," we can love Him or reject Him.
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