Originally posted by holycowSVTpaul:my standard now is to believe in an intellect-based faith, not a faith-based intellect.
Best quote I've seen in a long time.
Quote: Basically what I am suggesting is that the more one digs into the hard matters of faith, the more one will come to the conclusion that Christianity is a myth based religion just like every other cult despite Christianity's worlwide mass appeal. Who the real historical Jesus really was, nobody knows. All the gospels of the New Testatment were written well past the year 100 AD and their authors are quite circumspect. Keep in mind too, there was no "Bible" in the early days of Chrisitanity. What once was considered as canon and doctrine used to be up for debate.
Also another thing to keep in mind, there are also almost no secular writings mentioning a historical Jesus, save two. Both accounts are unders supicion--Including Josephus'writings which is now believed by some to be the insertions by some Christian zealot mentioning Jesus as the Christ...
To say "What would Jesus do?" is not only propersterous, but I do dare suggest that once you learn that Jesus is a mythical figure that sprang out of some obscure Jewish cult in the Middle East, then had the backing of the Roman Empire to advanced Christianity into a world wide religion, the question now really becomes, "What would the fictional character Jesus do?" ...
You have also need to understand that Christianity has had many years in which to temper itself within the frame work of a secular society. It started in the renaissance.
holycowSVTpaul, I hope you don't mind if I isolate the facts of your post and solicit opinions of the Bible scholars as to the contents...
