/facepalm
"Here now is documentation of what He said: "Whoever looks at a woman and lusts for her has committed adultery with her in his heart." So forget about your complaint about wealthy people. You have a bigger problem. You have sinned against a morally perfect God and have to face Him on Judgment Day. He has seen every sinful imagination you have had and holds you morally accountable."
Documentation? Don't you mean wild, self-serving claims? And where is the moral perfection in condemning your creation to eternal torture for experiencing feelings you gave it? Also, does this mean that Biblegod only wants asexuals in Heaven?
Of course, trying to browbeat non-religious people with your silly notion of "sin" will only get you laughed at anyway.
"Hell is very real and I don't want you to go there. Neither does God. That's why He provided a Savior."
You'd think that if God and Hell were real and God really cared about us not ending there, he'd simply remove Hell, or at least come up with a less roundabout and nonsensical way to get us saved...
@a5n8g8e2l4a:
Oh, for fuck's sake!
I have a BA in Classical Humanities which also covers the period in which Christ lived and the early church formed.
We do have other references to Jesus in other sources the Christian writings. The bible and Christian writers are NOT considered good evidence that Jesus existed, it is because of the references in OTHER writers that we believe that he existed as a historical person.
All the records of Jesus' life that were official, like census records and his trial record have vanished. This is very likely because they contradicted what the early church taught about Jesus' birth and death. Essentially, Christians successfully rewrote the history of Jesus' birth, trial, and death.
Actually, it is much more likely that there never was any historical Jesus, and thus no records of him. If you have the time (it's a bit of a wall of text, but very interesting), read Jesus Myth - The Case Against Historical Christ.
Basically, it says that the Gospel of Marc, the first one that got plagiarized by all the other evangelists, was not a factual record of actual events but an allegorical fiction peppered with scriptural references that was written after the Romans destroyed the kingdom of Judea by a Jew who used it as a way to whine that Jews had once again managed to get their own god so pissed off that he sent the Romans to crush them. As for the other, non-Christian writers who supposedly referenced Jesus, except for Josephus they just mentionned Christians/followers of Christ, and in the case of Josephus it is nearly certain that the original text had been tampered with, either on purpose or because a scribe copying the book accidentaly incorporated a margin note into the main text.
@Mech610:
Whoops! My bad. Typing BCE instead of BC is a habit of mine.
No need to apologize, Current Era/Before Current Era is perfectly correct (moreso than Before/After Christ, actually, considering that even he existed, his exact date of birth would be unknown), and it has the added benefit of making our dear Andy Shaftafly foam at the mouth :P
