Ron Singh

I still don't understand about that trinity part, Ierrellus

Half-Life

Do any of you know that the odds of one man fulfilling all of the Old Testament prophecies in a 33 year life-span are very very very very staggering?

ex-preacher

Why don't you come on over to the Biblical Criticism forum and stagger us with some of these "fulfilled prophecies"?

Pantera

Which ones?

Eudaimonist

That may be true but, if so, that's a very, very, very, very good reason to think that those prophesies were never fulfilled by any real man, but were added into the story by writers to create the illusion of prophesy fulfillment. That is, after all, far more likely. And far more plausible than divine intervention.

You were saying?

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Proxima Centauri

You could try reading some of this if you want to know why you should not trust everything you read in the bible.

<a href="http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/resurrection/lecture.html" target="_blank">http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/resurrection/lecture.html</a>

Technos

A simple question I must ask is; Why Jesus?

luvluv

"Jesus believed he was a prophet of the God of Israel (Yahweh). He believed he was called by Yahweh to announce the imminent arrival of the Kingdom of God. He preached much about this Kingdom but what most people miss or ignore or reinterpret is that he clearly taught that this Kingdom was coming very soon, within his lifetime perhaps, or shortly thereafter."

Sidewinder, what do you make of Jesus's parable of the ten virgins, which seemed to indicate that His coming could be very far off, far off enough that people who served Him might give up hope and stop looking.

And also, what do you make of Jesus himself saying that he did not know when He would return, and that only God knew?