If Christianity is true, why is there so much evil in the world?

[Ross Dolan]

I don't think, fair play, we'd find many of those in the recorded sayings of Jesus.

Nope. BUT...you would find them in the recorded saying of the god Jesus worshiped...and called for others to worship also.

Right?

 

[kudzu]

I don't think, fair play, we'd find many of those in the recorded sayings of Jesus.

There are NO recorded sayings of Jesus..

There are reports 80 years after the fact about what Jesus said when no one else was around.. like his conversations with Satan in the wilderness or his interrogations with Herod and Pontius Pilate.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

There are NO recorded sayings of Jesus..

here's one that applies to Episcopalian atheists.....

Matthew 10:14
If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.

it was important enough all the gospels agree....

Mark 6:11
If anyone will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that place, as a testimony against them."

Luke 10:11
Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off as a testimony against you.

even....

Acts 13:51
So they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

 

[kudzu]

here's one that applies to Episcopalian atheists.....


it was important enough all the gospels agree....




even....

Luke and Paul never met Jesus... Mark was a teen-ager when Jesus was carrying out his ministry on earth.

 

[USFREEDOM911]

because he too has made a choice.....

But looking at the tenants of Buddhism, they closely follow the same as those expressed in the Bible; they're just worded differently.

 

[USFREEDOM911]

those are not requirements for salvation.....as Jesus pointed out in the sermon on the Mount, if that is your standard, everyone is screwed.........John 3 makes it clear........it is simply a choice to believe or not believe........

And by following those; a choice has been made and coincides with other religions that preach pretty much the same thing, in just different words.

How does my "standard" screw everyone else??

 

[USFREEDOM911]

that's fine....but obviously you will have to plan on being in some other form of paradise with some other form of god.....

A different "form", doesn't necessarily mean that it's a different God.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Luke and Paul never met Jesus... Mark was a teen-ager when Jesus was carrying out his ministry on earth.

both Luke and Mark met Jesus......Paul did not write a gospel......

 

[PostmodernProphet]

But looking at the tenants of Buddhism, they closely follow the same as those expressed in the Bible; they're just worded differently.

????.....which one have you never read, or is it both?.......nothing is the same.....

 

[PostmodernProphet]

A different "form", doesn't necessarily mean that it's a different God.

sure it does......if you make up your own god, its not YHWH........

 

[PostmodernProphet]

And by following those; a choice has been made and coincides with other religions that preach pretty much the same thing, in just different words.

How does my "standard" screw everyone else??

your standard only screws people who believe in your standard........and there are no other religions which teach the same thing as Christianity.....Christianity teaches believe in God........no other religions teach that, by definition......

 

[USFREEDOM911]

????.....which one have you never read, or is it both?.......nothing is the same.....

I never said that they were the "same"; but instead they closely follow the same, in regards to the tenants of each.

 

[USFREEDOM911]

sure it does......if you make up your own god, its not YHWH........

Does that mean if you are a Husband that you can't be a Father or that if you are a Father, then you can't be a Grandfather; seeing as how they are different titles (names) for the same person?

 

[USFREEDOM911]

your standard only screws people who believe in your standard........and there are no other religions which teach the same thing as Christianity.....Christianity teaches believe in God........no other religions teach that, by definition......

You keep saying it screws other people; but you failed to explain how it screws them.

So no other religion believes in God??

 

[Granule]

Because it's not true. Your god is a man-made myth.

Your god used to swing from the chandeliers in the White House.

 

[kudzu]

both Luke and Mark met Jesus......Paul did not write a gospel......

Luke the Greek physician never met Jesus.. Paul AKA Saul wrote some 13 letters in the Bible.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

I never said that they were the "same"; but instead they closely follow the same, in regards to the tenants of each.

okay, now I'm curious........which religion shares the only tenet of Christianity.....

18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

 

[USFREEDOM911]

okay, now I'm curious........which religion shares the only tenet of Christianity.....

I never said they "shared" any tenant.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Does that mean if you are a Husband that you can't be a Father or that if you are a Father, then you can't be a Grandfather; seeing as how they are different titles (names) for the same person?

you can pretend a man who's never had children is a grandfather or father but it isn't true......just like when you pretend a piece of wood is a god..

 

[PostmodernProphet]

You keep saying it screws other people; but you failed to explain how it screws them.

obviously your standard would not screw people who did not follow your standard.....but if they follow your standard they are not following God's standard