Why do people still believe in Jesus and Christianity?

Jack said:
Very little literature has been written about Jesus in his lifetime. You would think for a Man-God there would be MORE.
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Why? Big philosophical question is along the lines of why didn't God just imprint the Bible into our brains or chisel it into the stars. Why make it have to come through the flawed instrument of man? My best guess is that, by doing so it would be like always giving school kids then answers before taking a test. They have to learn on their own. Just giving them the answers isn't in their best long-term interests. They have to earn it.
 
Michael_Panetta said:
It's been obliterated by scholars for over a hundred years. We know that Jesus himself is most likely pure myth.
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Typical secular. "YOU KNOW" that MOST LIKELY? That's a good way to begin your oxymoronic post. That's some real objective truth there pal. It goes quite well with "suggests", "could indicate", etc., the usual left wing ad hominem BS attempted to be presented as FACTS. That is the reason people still have faith. (and anyone with a brain dismisses Global Warming as being a man made event) No one has been able to objectively prove the Holy Scriptures to be false through history actual or applied science. What? Do you really think that you are in possession of a Super-natural-O-meter, a device that can quantify super natural events via measuring them against NATURAL LAWS? Just how does that work? Reality: About 95% of the Holy Scriptures are based upon a recorded history and the 5% that deals with the Supernatural? You can no more disprove a supernatural event any more that I can prove a supernatural event via applying the natural laws of physics thus the TERM SUPER(ior)NATURAL......something that is beyond the laws of nature to measure or quantify.

You do know there are such animals as ROMAN HISTORICAL SCHOLARS that more than validate Jesus as being a real physical person....right? Historians that actually existed in the same time period as some of the original apostles of Christ. Historians and authors such as Cornelius of Tacitus (52-24 AD) In the 2nd century you had Lucian of Samosata who spoke of Christ as an actual historical person, only 1 century removed. There are many more Josephus 37 AD referencing Jesus the Christ......etc.,

To say, Christ was MOST LIKELY a myth ......well, history actual disagrees.

But FAITH (Christian Faith) is constructed upon TRUTH, truth that is testable. There is no such animal as BLIND FAITH in a true Christian Doctrine, as Christians are supposed to TEST ALL THINGS and hold firm unto that which is true. Why believe in the Supernatural when you can't test it? Because the other 95% is testable and so far, as evidenced by the scriptures still being in publication today....the SCRIPTURES REMAIN UNBROKEN. Its called prima facie truth.........when 95% can be tested and found not lacking.....then the 5% is true in a prima facie manner until YOU or ANYONE can present Objective, Testable, Reproducible evidence that proves the 5% wrong. Proceed.......jerk out your super-natural-o-meter and disprove just one Supernatural Event through the inferior laws of nature (the created).
 
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Ralph said:
Typical secular. "YOU KNOW" that MOST LIKELY? That good way to begin your oxymoronic post. That's some real objective truth there pal. It goes quite with "suggests", "could indicate", etc., the usual left wing ad hominem BS attempted to be presented as FACTS. That is the reason people still have faith. No one has been able to objectively prove the Holy Scriptures to be false through history actual or applied science.
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The 'Scriptures' are real, the Man-God ... debatable.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
Why? Big philosophical question is along the lines of why didn't God just imprint the Bible into our brains or chisel it into the stars. Why make it have to come through the flawed instrument of man? My best guess is that, by doing so it would be like always giving school kids then answers before taking a test. They have to learn on their own. Just giving them the answers isn't in their best long-term interests. They have to earn it.
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Bibles and scrolls and pictographs and other human forms of putting speech into something preservable are our species' genius. Our knowledge, experience, wisdom doesn't have to die when our meatspace body is done. We learned how to preserve our most beloved things -- maps to a good hunting area, a drawing of a river with places marked to avoid swamps or hostile ppl, good places to plant crops that will do well, the motions of the planets and stars, medicinal plants, paint horrible events like fires/landslides/earthquakes/deaths from disease, etc.

Religious texts are these ancient teachings and events codified. As a species we have always sought to learn why bad (and good) things happen, and in our search for knowledge we invented the gods.

There was never a need for a god to imprint His/Her image into our brains. Our DNA and our evolution sparked us to grow, to question, to be endlessly and forever curious... and to solve the answers.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
that doesn't mean he couldn't.......that just means you would have.......I'm glad my salvation didn't hinge on you......
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:) Me, you, Jesus, or all the rest. Getting crucified will kill you.

"Crucifixion is a method of punishment or capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden beam and left to hang perhaps for several days, until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation. It was used as a punishment by the Romans.Wikipedia"
 
PostmodernProphet said:
no argument there....but be assured, no one is ever going to call you their lord and savior......
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Wouldn't expect them to.
By the way, when those Muslim guys ran into those two buildings in NYC, did you want to 'Turn the other Cheek' and 'Forgive your Trespassers'?

Or where you more Hammurabi Code, ... 'eye for an eye'.

"The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian code of law of ancient Mesopotamia, dated to about 1754 BC. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world. The sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi, enacted the code. A partial copy exists on a 2.25-metre-tall stone stele.Wikipedia"
 
PostmodernProphet said:
???.....he's the one who explained it to me.......it's all in the scriptures....when Jesus said "let he who is without sin....." did you take that as an invitation to step forward and let him know how well you had been doing?.......
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Let me guess. Jesus spoke unto you and said "Spread hate against the Demmycunts, kill them when you can."
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Bibles and scrolls and pictographs and other human forms of putting speech into something preservable are our species' genius. Our knowledge, experience, wisdom doesn't have to die when our meatspace body is done. We learned how to preserve our most beloved things -- maps to a good hunting area, a drawing of a river with places marked to avoid swamps or hostile ppl, good places to plant crops that will do well, the motions of the planets and stars, medicinal plants, paint horrible events like fires/landslides/earthquakes/deaths from disease, etc.

Religious texts are these ancient teachings and events codified. As a species we have always sought to learn why bad (and good) things happen, and in our search for knowledge we invented the gods.

There was never a need for a god to imprint His/Her image into our brains. Our DNA and our evolution sparked us to grow, to question, to be endlessly and forever curious... and to solve the answers.
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Sorry, but while I readily agree that mankind is very clever with his tools, some people, including yours truly, think there's more to existence than simply building the best tools or collecting the most tools.

IMO, religions are paths to spiritual enlightenment but not the enlightenment themselves. Too many religions get wrapped in supporting their own existence instead of fulfilling their primary mission. No religion, IMO, is it "right" since they are simply different paths to the mountaintop, not the mountaintop themselves. People who claim theirs is the one true religion are running around in circles in the foothills, not climbing the mountain.

Does that make sense or does it read like that stupid shit the guy with the word generator posts?
 
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