Is Jesus the Circular Messiah?

Actually more people do not accept your view of the Bible as those that do. I am referring to Jesus and the fact that majority of the world does not believe Jesus to be the son of God. Sixty seven percent of the world in fact (according to the CIA factbook 2007)

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Christians 33.32% (of which Roman Catholics 16.99%, Protestants 5.78%, Orthodox 3.53%, Anglicans 1.25%), Muslims 21.01%, Hindus 13.26%, Buddhists 5.84%, Sikhs 0.35%, Jews 0.23%, Baha'is 0.12%, other religions 11.78%, non-religious 11.77%, atheists 2.32%

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CIA World FactbookAs I have shown above, 67% of the world disagrees with this statement. Most do not see Jesus as the Christ, Messiah, or son of God. If you mean 'Jesus' lived... then the most vocal critics may agree.That being said how does this affect your appeal to popularity?What I find to be more interesting is the claims that Islam will overtake Christianity by the year 2025 or that Islam has a 0.6% higher growth rate than Christianity. I am unable to find reliable data on such claims, but they still present a problem for you.

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The growth rate of Islam, according to the U.S. Center for World Mission, at 2.9% is higher than the 2.6% growth rate of the world's population. Thus, the percentage of Muslims in the world is growing on the order of 0.6% per year.

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Religious Tolerancewww.foreignpolicy.com puts it differently:

Islam Growth rate*: 1.84 percent

Christianity Growth rate: 1.38 percent

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Wiki explains some of the difficulties in the claim of "fastest growing religion". I am not trying to claim that Islam is the fastest growing, just that some studies have lead to that conclusion. As such the possibility exists and is worthy of consideration based upon your claims. Wiki

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If this turns out to be true, how does this affect your appeal to popularity?

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Cold Foreign Object writes:

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Muslim countries kill Christians and Christianity is illegal.

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It will be rough for you then if their truth becomes The Truth simply because there are more of them. Not much will change for us evolutionists, I am sure most of us are used to religious folks threatening our doom.

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Cold Foreign Object writes:

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Oh wait, Muslims deny the Holocaust too.

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A sad consequence of your appeal to popularity?

I do admit that I changed the premise, I did so to make a point. Most of the world does not believe in the Divinity of Christ. As such, given your fancy for the appeal to popularity I was hoping for you to admit that christ was not divine. Ok, not really; I expected you to retract your appeal to popularity. No they don't. Read up on the religions, majority of the population does not believe that Jesus was divine. Many claim he was, most claim he wasn't so the Bible certainly remains in question. If your appeal to popularity stands then Jesus was not divine and further claims of truth in the bible can be examined for popularity. What parts? Islam, Christianity, and Judaism (ignoring the hundreds or thousands of denominations contained within them) don't accept the same parts as truth. If appeal to popularity stands then at the very least we can safely reject Jesus as divine. Again, your appeal to popularity conflicts with what you call truth. Majory of the world rejects this viewpoint so I wonder if you plan to retract the viewpoint or the appeal? Though I would accept that many diverse religions accept parts of the bible, (for example that Jesus did live) nearly everyone rejects the conclusions your faith has lead you to. Since you appear to say that might makes right I feel I am correct to ask "That being said how does this affect your appeal to popularity?"