Dricho150 (quote) Then why isn't the bible enough? If people want a God inspired direction the here it is.
(reply) As I said before, credibility. All religious books are inspired by their Gods; you cant believe them all!
And it doesnt take an enlightened man to be able to admit when you are wrong; I would even go as far as to say if you lack this ability, there is something morally wrong with you.
(quote) I could take this opportunity to point out several conversations where I believe you have been proved wrong in your current 'theology' after much exploration and yet their was no change. Just more digging in. Why? I can only assume it is because that my theology does not fit your current desires or thoughts for your life. You like the rest of us find things to support what we already believe, and dismiss the rest.
(reply) I dont believe I was proven wrong. The answers you gave didnt meet my satisfaction because I believe they were full of holes which I pointed out to you. You may call it digging in, but I call it pointing out the obvious flaws in your argument.
I admit when I am wrong when I am convinced I am wrong; thus far you havent proven me wrong to my satisfaction.
Next when I said: IMO The problem with Jesus is he lacked credibility; nobody had reason to believe him.
Drich (replied) So the miracles, walking on water feeding 5000 (couple different times) healing the sick making the blind to see, the lame walk, raising the dead, having an intimate knowledge of God that not even the most learned Jewish scholars had, all means nothing to you? None of this is credible in your best estimation?
(reply) But did these things realy happen? IMO the problem with Jesus is he never wrote anything down so the only thing we know about him is what other people claimed he did; and many of these claims contridict each other. If you believe the books that eventually became the bible; as you do, according to these books these things did happen, and Jesus did claim to be the son of God. But if you believe some of the other books that people wrote about him, such as what the muslims believe for example, according to the Koran things happened differently and Jesus never made such claims. It kinda comes down to who do you want to believe.
I personally believe if Jesus did do all of those things he would have had many more followers than he had because once people found out he can feed the hungry and heal the sick, he would be spending more time caring for the needy than preaching because every sick and hungry person and their mother would be in line getting their needs met; but even if these events did take place? (which I doubt) it still cant compare to a voice coming from the sky with todays technology. To work a few miracles in front of a few witnesses cant be compared to a voice coming from the sky while being recorded by NBC, CBS, ABC, fox News, MSNBC, and all the other TV stations what will keep a perminant record of the event for the entire world to remember.
(quote) Like what? BTW can you name anyone else who claimed to be the son of God?
(reply) well Osiris and Dionsysus comes to mind; even though their stories preluded the story of Jesus by many years, their stories are simular; but they were Gods from different countries (Greek and Egypt)
As far as those who claimed to be the messiah during the time of Jesus and in the Jewish religion, I dont know of any because they havent been remembered.
(quote) Apparently, a voice for you is all you need for belief. but what if that voice told you something that was not in the will of God? How would you discern what is from God and what is not? That is because Your only criteria has been met in the voice, what other tool do you have to know if the voice you hear is God's voice?
(reply)Why would God tell us something that is outside of his will? Im not getting this particular question. If God gave us physical proof of his existence, why would he give us wrong information?
Ken