"If it's simply a matter of message distortion then Christianity did a terrible job of explaining itself."

To be fair, it had 300-odd years to get wrapped around the politics of the region. Telephone before telephones.

You would think that somewhere in that 300 year period it would have been a force for class struggle and/or redistribution of wealth unless it was "corrupted" from the first minute of existence.

Time by human understanding is a lie. Sheep.

God is the eternal stimulus to the simultaneous realities. All of the existing events of the universe have happened in the past and will happen again, and they also are all occurring right now. To say there was a beginning to it all is to look at the universe through your extant eyes. It does make sense that one would focus on their extant reality, though, as that is what they in these eyes and body experience.

I swear I'm sober.

One would think that, Putin33. But history is complicated. I'm very reluctant to make such extrapolations without extensive background study.

The problem with the notion that Jesus crucified, died, and rose again is that the time of year they chose to celebrate this sequence of events coincides with Passover. It all feels an awful lot like people just wanted to give a big fuck you to Judaism.
I dont know if Jesus was real, but I know his followers to this day still havent read the messages he espoused. Jesus was not going around harping about tax cuts for the wealthy or child labor slavery. Jesus would not be taking selfies. Jesus would not be playing webdip either.
People keep quoting this scholar, and that scholar the problem is when all you ever quote is biblical scholars, of course Jesus is gonna seem real. They are scholars of the bible, i'd be shocked if these people ever even looked up an article about the bhavagad gita, confuscius, shinto, tao te ching, tibetan book of the dead, or even the talmud.

Point is, don't quote me a bunch of bible thumpers, to prove a key point about the bible. thats like asking Tom Cruise to give a fair assessment of the legitimacy of Scientology.

If you enjoy the Bible and like games, try this:

http://www.clickhole.com/clickventure/youre-adam-first-man-can-you-eat-right-fruit-and-o-3957#1,

lol I didnt understand the game

Jesus was not some white bearded guy either.

What color was his beard?

Christian Iconographic imagery has always been flawed. Edvard Munchs yellow christ was at least uniquely compelling. An image of some stoner white guy holding a lamb strikes me as bob ross dipshittery.

I mean some white guy with a beard. Its stupid. He had to be muslim. Christ was a Parthian in appearance.

Christ being white has been challenged by many. Mostly artists who find the story bizarre and ethnically biased

The Greeks invented the religion of course he was going to look Greek in most depictions. Ethiopians depict him as Ethiopian and Chinese depict him as Chinese.

Its the same reason Anime is idolatry of white people. Thats what people think matters.

Ich verstehe nicht.

Wenn ich ein millionen euro hatte wourde ich der webdip kauffen ja?

und ich hab mir kino !

Is Jesus the first historical depiction of white on black police brutality?

If I agree with you will you promise to get better at diplomacy?

Jawohl. besonders wenn Sie nicht spielen.

"Anime is idolatry of white people"

nah bro

I'm referring to this post in particular, but there are others of like quality: "I mean some white guy with a beard. Its stupid. He had to be muslim. Christ was a Parthian in appearance."

Well first of all there were no Muslims in Jesus' day, and second, Muslim is not an ethnicity--It's a religion.

And why do people think all Middle Easterners are brown?? Abraham came from Ur of the Chaldees. Chaldeans are Caucasian and as white as northern Europeans. That said, Jesus' genealogy is well known and included other ethnicities as well, including Ruth the Moabite. To sum up, we don't know what color Jesus was, and guess what--It doesn't matter one bit. If white people want to think of him as white, "one of us," and black people want to think of him as black, "one of us!" and brown people... well you get my drift. It's perfectly OK. Certainly he was outdoors a lot, so he would at least have been very tan, but... it... doesn't... matter. What matters is that he was Jewish, and fulfilled the prophecies of a savior that would come to all people everywhere through God's chosen people, the Jews. And what matters now is whether you close your heart and mind to his existence or whether you seek him and transform your life completely, and then live forever. That's what matters. That's all that matters.

Wait, I thought I muted the Daily Bible Thread.

The argument that Jesus was any different than Criss Angel is still up for debate. Feign Death isnt even that high level of a Magic User spell technically. And besides do we have documents showing any naysayers. Turning water to wine, walking on water. Food coloring, vinegar and CGI could explain those things.

https://youtu.be/XXfmjMlPEic

Brainbomb, or it could be real, and you don't want to be on the wrong side of that issue.

Actually, i would not want to be close to any god which gave me the capacity to reason, knowing it would become an atheist. And then decides to punish me for that.

Fuck that God, if it exists, then it does not deserve to be worshipped. And those who worship it are very sad and dangerous.

Really Mujus, using fear as a weapon to convert people. You disgust me.