GOD is fully God. Jesus is fully human and was raised from the dead by God.
How many humans do you know that don't have a human father? Jesus being raised by God is the same as Jesus raising Himself, which makes His 'sacrifice' a walk in the park.
Jesus is only God in the sense that He was begotten and not made.
Shades of polytheism here Phat. If God and Jesus are not the same then they are 2 different gods.
One could think of Jesus as Gods character. God personified His own character in order to relate to us boneheads.
Well God is supposed to know everything so there was no need to become a bonehead like us to know something. Anyway, it was the retard Yahweh who couldnt create a perfect creature, so it's not our fault that God is too thick to create something other than boneheads.
IF God raised him from the dead,
Well a second ago you said that God DID raise Him from the dead, so which is it?
I would think that all of Jesus died on the cross. The human character was dead. The Divine essence is alive.
Someone with divine essence is more than a human. There's no way out of it phat, if Jesus is God incarnate then He was more than human.
It is the hope of belief. It is the way that death is transcended.
If Jesus was God then He could not die, even begotten of God, an eternal being cannot die. The resurrection is a fairytale for babies.
Perhaps. Scholars argue both ways on this one.
It doesn't matter what scholars say, take of your rose tinted glasses and read the thing, it is ridiculous.
Even if the crucifixion were a myth, however, the point of the story behind the myth is that there is a Creator who is the source of eternal life and that our physical death need not end our purpose and destiny, in light of eternity.
Yeah that's all fine and dandy, but it isnt Christianity.
Are you suggesting that anyone over the age of 5 should never have a belief?
Not at all. But belief should have some grounds for taking it seriously. The entire Christian faith is flawed right from the very beginning, it isn't even consistent.
Perhaps you think that Star Wars is a healthier metaphor for aspiring 5 year olds to look up to!
Star Wars is a lot more believable than the NT Phat!
And what makes you think Jesus is a good example to look up to? A god that slaughters innocent babies, a God that endorses rape and slavery, a God that endorses genocide, yeah Jesus is a wonderful role model.
Use the force, Luke! And finish your peas, or Darth Vadar will get you in your sleep!
Or, "let my people go Pharaoh, even though I made it impossible for you to do so, or I will slaughter your innocent children", or "if you win this battle you can have all the virgins in the city to rape as you please". Yahweh is wonderful.
IF Belief is only a viable option for children, perhaps Jesus was right when He said:
Of course He was right. He obviously knew that anyone other than a child cannot take Him seriously, and after He died His followers, in their attempts to make Jesus into something He clearly wasn't, made the cult even more moronic with their corrucptions of the Hebrew Bible.
You'd be better off worshipping Yoda, it doesnt take as big a leap of faith.