Yes Brian! You got it!
I wasn’t born until 1963!
All except for Him.
I think Jesus sinned more than the average guy.
The first century con man bit is so fitting...
I know it fits Jesus so well, at least the version of Jesus created in the Gospels anyway.
Apart from God, that is exactly what we are,
I think the majority of mankind have far higher morals that the bloodthirsty Yahweh.
since God is necessary to illuminate reality for us.
If your reality was illuminated then you would know that there is no such thing as God. I can only conclude that you are deluding yourself.
Emanuel (God with us) accomplished everything so that we may become sons of God.
Pity Jesus was never called ”Emanuel’, it might have at least given Him an outside chance of being a messiah.
You are right about something Brian... If Jesus was not the messiah (the Christ) then he is the antichrist.
I didn’t say that though!
I just said He wasn’t the Messiah, the Bible and history pay testimony to that. I find it difficult to believe that anyone who has studied the Old Testament can possibly consider Jesus as the Messiah.
If He was not telling the truth, then He is a deceiver.
The thing is, we have no idea of what He is quoted as saying is actually what He did say. The Jesus of the first century could be oblivious to all the crap in the NT that is attributed to Him.
He is either a liar, or He is God in the flesh.
Of course these aren’t the only two possibilities.
He could be a liar.
He could be God.
He could have been mad.
He could have been a figment of someone’s imagination.
He could have been misrepresented in the Gospels.
I’m not sure which one I’d go for. I think the only one I could exclude with any certainty is the God option.
The big problem is the poor quality of the sources that we have. The Gospels themselves are hugely unreliable, as they are contradictory, contain obvious impossibilities, are rife with historical inaccuracies, and we have no idea who wrote any of them.
There is only Christ,
Well, there were many Christs in the OT, every Jewish king was a ”chirst’.
Personally, I think you are the deceiver Brian (and it goes for me as well).
You need to believe this to maintain your delusion, no point in having an open mind is there?
Apart from God we are one head, of a beast in the sea of mankind. We are one snake in a brood of vipers. We are one fish, in the streams of Pharoah; One scale, on the flesh of leviathan. We lie hidden among the vegitation (the Poplars and fig leaves).
Ever tried self esteem classes?
Brian.