Why do Christians believe in Jesus when He's NOWHERE in the Hebrew Bible?

[Saint Guinefort]

While blissful ignorance certainly seems like the goal for most, bible reading is hardly the thing to mitigate that.

Actually it's a cool thing to do. At about the time my faith was starting to crumble I decided I should make a solid effort to read the Bible front to back. So I did that (using an NSRV so I didn't go mad trying to puzzle out a KJV!)

It's some amazing stuff. You find some of the cool GOOD things you might have missed before. Some interesting insights into other people's thoughts. Some horrific crimes against all things good, often at the command of or with the full support of God, himself!

Then there's the weird stuff that just sit out there on their own. A donkey talking apropos of nothing. A guy who tries to actually save the Ark of the Covenant from falling on the ground gets struck down by God. Never figured that one out.

The hardest part, hands down, was the Book of Numbers. Dreadful lists of tribes and geneaologies and ....gah, it was like reading someone's financial records.

Wildest out of your mind fun: Ezekiel. If Ezekiel wasn't a schizophrenic he was doing some serious psychedelics.

Worst Substitute for even Soft Core Porn: Song of Songs. No matter how people try to tell us we are all titillated by the poem that is this book it will never rise to the level of titillation for me.

 

[Saint Guinefort]

To be fair to dutch


Those posters he commented on are insane

Regardless. It shows a certain aggressiveness couched in a fake "concern". Dutch actually seems like he might be suffering from a narcissistic personality disorder. It certainly matches his actions. His abuse of others is a metal fist in a soft outer covering he thinks somehow makes it not abuse.

And when he starts asking you leadingly if you are a spousal abuser, well you have to wonder why. Why did his mind go there?

 

[Saint Guinefort]

This guy shows up every few months with a new forum name. I find this person extremely stupid and tedious.

Is he always a "Reaper"? That's what he claims now. But he's unclear on what it actually means to him. He just refers to the parable.

 

[Saint Guinefort]

Not like that at all ,I knew Jesus was the center of Christianity. I saw pictures of him,on the very few times I thought about Jesus,it made absolutely no sense to me.
Here's this one Jesus,but you have Catholics,Lutherans,Baptist,Methodists, ETC.,all with their own spin.That's as far as it went,all my friends went to church,sunday school,got confirmed, the whole bit.
I never did any of that.

Oh. OK.

 

[BidenPresident]

Is he always a "Reaper"? That's what he claims now. But he's unclear on what it actually means to him. He just refers to the parable.

He always posts "I AM" over and over as if it gets more profound each iteration. He is a dope.

 

[Melchizedek = Michael]

He always posts "I AM" over and over as if it gets more profound each iteration. He is a dope.

"AM I"?
" AM I"!

 

[NiftyNiblick]

When I wasn't suffering through my text books as a lad, I was reading Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels.
That's what we die back in those days.

When I was a little older, I read the racing forms to bet on the ponies.

Later still, I knew the union contract inside and out because I was a labor rep presenting grievances... and routinely winning.

Now that I'm elderly, I read whatever gifts that I get from Barnes and Noble. My favorite gift is a book, a bottle, and a funny t-shirt..so they stick with that.

Through it all, the bible just never seemed to have come up.

 

[BidenPresident]

Is he always a "Reaper"? That's what he claims now. But he's unclear on what it actually means to him. He just refers to the parable.

That buffoon does not even know referring to God as "I AM" is in the Bible, Exodus. I truly think he is mentally ill.

 

[Melchizedek = Michael]

He always posts "I AM" over and over as if it gets more profound each iteration. He is a dope.

John 8:58

 

[BidenPresident]

Ah! It may be that psychopath IntotheNight.

 

[Melchizedek = Michael]

Ah! It may be that psychopath IntotheNight.

What day is Michaelmas on?

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Wow. You guys are so fucking stupid it's not even funny. I love watching you fuck-ups ETERNALLY try to figure out who is a sock for whom.

Is it projection? How many accounts do YOU have, lying sack of shit fake Christian?

Thank you for expressing yourself, Perry PhD. It's very revealing.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

He always posts "I AM" over and over as if it gets more profound each iteration. He is a dope.

Why do you think that is, BP?

 

[Saint Guinefort]

Thank you for expressing yourself, Perry PhD. It's very revealing.

Are you going to "diagnose" me? Like you ALWAYS DO TO EVERYONE WHO EVEN MILDLY DISAGREES WITH YOU?

You truly believe that which is why I think you’re a paranoid schizophrenic.

I don’t believe everyone has a sock, just certain people like you.

Delusional paranoid schizophrenic.

Lying Paranoid Schizophrenic.

Another delusional scream from JPP's foremost paranoid schizophrenic.

The best evidence that you don't have all your marbles in one sock is your online manifesto here: https://politiplex.freeforums.net/thread/94/obamas-presidential-eligibility-debunked

Into the Night is a sock for gfm7175 and IBDaMann. Follow his signature links to his "forum" for insights into the mind of a paranoid schizophrenic.

Instead of trying to remember/type his names all the time I just call him Sybil.

Dude, you're the liar. You're the one continually making up numbers then claiming they may or may not be real. I can only go by what you post, not by what you might post.

Overall, it's interesting to see how far down the road of insane behavior you will be driving yourself. Every post every person makes is a very small slice of who they are. Your slices are adding up to the picture of a sociopathic schizophrenic. Please continue posting more.

It's an act or the "dumb one" in a schizophrenic. Piss him/her/it off and the mask drops or the personality changes to a saner, but pissed off, person.

Sent from the steamboat, Robert E. Lee, using the Mississippi River

True, but the causal factor, IMO, is insanity. Probably dementia. Not a schizo like Sybil or a bipolar like Jack...and a few others.

Good example of an enraged bipolar, Jack. Will I have to wait until 5PM for you to be shitfaced or just after Noon?

Jack is probably a non-treated bipolar...and self-medicates with alcohol.

Are you Bipolar?

Goatboy's paranoia is his own worst enemy.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Do you think I post under this name so that I can post scientifically sound points with citations and then post under Dutch's name so I can sound like a self-obsessed narcissist?

uh, no?.....you're both self-obsessed narcicists...but thanks for the chuckle......

 

[Saint Guinefort]

uh, no?.....you're both self-obsessed narcicists...but thanks for the chuckle......

You are a prick. A "PRick for Jesus". LOL

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Are you going to "diagnose" me?

I already have diagnosed you, Perry PhD. Your overreactions are evidence of my diagnosis: you're over stressed to the breaking point.

Not uncommon for a HS dropout with three kids, but highly unusual for someone of your self-proclaimed credentials.

You are a prick. A "PRick for Jesus". LOL

QED

 

[PostmodernProphet]

You are a prick. A "PRick for Jesus". LOL

you sound just like Dutch.....

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Ah! It may be that psychopath IntotheNight.

its Mason......he went on automatic ignore as soon as he created the sock.....

 

[Cypress]

I like the definition offered by Protestant theologian Max Lynn Stackhouse.

"Religion: a comprehensive worldview or 'metaphysical moral vision' that is accepted as binding because it is held to be in itself basically true and just even if all dimensions of it cannot be either fully confirmed or refuted".

Doesn't work for me

That definition is not meant for you.

It is meant to be broad enough to reasonably describe the essence all the world's religions.