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

[Saint Guinefort]

P.P. would flunk a third grade grammar test.

Punctuation alone seems to be his bete noir.

 

[Melchizedek = Michael]

So you are a Christian. We know.

No he's not! He likes to always sit on the fence won't commit to anything, he either name drops someone he assumes is an expert,or reads his resume.
Once in a while he will post a fantastic post.

 

[BidenPresident]

Punctuation alone seems to be his bete noir.

Typical right winger. They love being ignorant.

 

[Cypress]

But you're not a Christian ?

You don't have to be Christian or Jewish to recognize many of our moral standards and frames of reference came from a two thousand year engagement with Christianty. Just like a secular Chinese can recognize the values framework in East Asia was bequeathed to some extent by thousands of years of engagement with Buddhism and Confucianism.

"Many contemporary secular practices, categories, and judgments are in fact Christian. The Christian language is removed, but the deep Christian structure remains in the universalism of our moral ideals, the concept of the individual, the tension between our public and our private lives."

-- Charles Matthews, professor of religious studies

 

[Melchizedek = Michael]

You don't have to be Christian or Jewish to recognize many of our moral standards and frames of reference came from a two thousand year engagement with Christianty. Just like a secular Chinese can recognize the values framework in East Asia was bequeathed to some extent by thousands of years of engagement with Buddhism and Confucianism.

So you agree you're not a Christian .

 

[Cypress]

Karen Armstrong, who is a very highly regarded writer of nonfiction for history and religion wrote a whole book about the revolution in ethics and values that occurred during the Axial Age in antiquity.

 

[BidenPresident]

Karen Armstrong, who is a very highly regarded writer of nonfiction for history and religion wrote a whole book about the revolution in ethics and values that occurred during the Axial Age in antiquity.

So?

 

[Cypress]

So?

I disagree with the proposition that feelings of sophisticated moral obligations and ethical imperatives just come naturally to is without even thinking about it.

I agree with Karen Armstrong that it took a religious and intellectual revolution in human thought to transform our value systems.

 

[BidenPresident]

I disagree with the proposition that feelings of sophisticated moral obligations and ethical imperatives just come naturally to is without even thinking about it.

I never asserted such a thing. Has anyone on this thread said that?

 

[Phantasmal]

Karen Armstrong, who is a very highly regarded writer of nonfiction for history and religion wrote a whole book about the revolution in ethics and values that occurred during the Axial Age in antiquity.

Yes, she did, and I have read it.

 

[Cypress]

Yes, she did, and I have read it.

What a great author!

In my opinion, the reason Jesus, The Buddha, Confucius, heck even Jimmy Carter are hard to emulate is precisely because the ethics they espouse and example they set don't come naturally to us and are hard to duplicate.

 

[Melchizedek = Michael]

I disagree with the proposition that feelings of sophisticated moral obligations and ethical imperatives just come naturally to is without even thinking about it.

I agree with Karen Armstrong that it took a religious and intellectual revolution in human thought to transform our value systems.

I don't, we are born with a certain amount of knowing right from wrong,some people just ignore it.

 

[Melchizedek = Michael]

What a great author!

In my opinion, the reason Jesus, The Buddha, Confucius, heck even Jimmy Carter are hard to emulate is precisely because the ethics they espouse and example they set don't come naturally to us and are hard to duplicate.

Horseshit!

 

[Phantasmal]

I disagree with the proposition that feelings of sophisticated moral obligations and ethical imperatives just come naturally to is without even thinking about it.

I agree with Karen Armstrong that it took a religious and intellectual revolution in human thought to transform our value systems.

Thinking is natural, and so is questioning and looking for answers.

It’s the concept of which came first, the chicken or the egg. Jasper’s theory is being challenged by modern studies.

 

[Melchizedek = Michael]

Thinking is natural, and so is questioning and looking for answers.

It’s the concept of which came first, the chicken or the egg. Jasper’s theory is being challenged by modern studies.

The chicken

 

[Phantasmal]

What a great author!

In my opinion, the reason Jesus, The Buddha, Confucius, heck even Jimmy Carter are hard to emulate is precisely because the ethics they espouse and example they set don't come naturally to us and are hard to duplicate.

I disagree.

 

[Melchizedek = Michael]

What a great author!

In my opinion, the reason Jesus, The Buddha, Confucius, heck even Jimmy Carter are hard to emulate is precisely because the ethics they espouse and example they set don't come naturally to us and are hard to duplicate.

So are you going to "emulate" Jesus and walk on water,turn water to wine?

 

[PostmodernProphet]

So you think I am anti-Christian?

yes.....

 

[Saint Guinefort]

yes.....

Hmmm, did you go out of your way to be dishonest by changing the quote? Because it links back to one of MY quotes.

This is indeed a new low for the boards own Mockery of Christianity.

You are really dishonest. But now you have clearly laid out what you want others to do to you.

I hope you enjoy it!

 

[Saint Guinefort]

Ya know, when I'm alone I like to rub one out while looking at pictures of dogs having sex. Then I pray to God for more dog sex pictures.
That's really the only thing I care about. I pray to God ALL DAY LONG for dog sex pictures.

Wow, PMP. That sounds pretty disturbing.

Luke 6:31