Originally Posted by CNC
Originally Posted by Driveby
Again, an honest series of questions for you CNC, Irish, and others as well. No disrespect intended at all..

When you read about another ancient culture telling stories about sky men riding in on a fiery dragon and such……Do you believe all of it literally happened??.....Why do you suddenly change your metric for what’s believable when the judgement is on your own belief??.....If you’re gonna go with the theory that anything is possible when it comes to God to explain humans poofing into existence then you should also believe that there could have actually been men riding on fiery dragons…..

That being said…….I still look at a lot of things in the Bible with a grain of salt……Just like with anything else we have only been told the parts that folks wanted us to hear…..These disciples could have very well had that ethical logic that jawbone spoke of where you see something as ok to do if it serves a greater purpose……They could have all been on a life mission to save the souls of the world and felt like some details were ok to fudge if it accomplished the goal…..I’ll admit that I’m very skeptical of all of the “magic” and such……For example, I think Moses went up on a mountain and whittled on a rock for a while and came back down and told the crowd a little white lie for the sake of control and to get folks to act the way they needed to…..Its classic human behavior……

As far as Jesus specifically…….Its one of those things where I don’t know for sure……Like I said in a previous post…..I do recognize that if nothing else, for one individual to have the kind of impact his life had on the world is pretty miraculous in and of itself……and when it comes to a life to model my own after I have no problems in trying to follow the example that he set for us…..Those principles are the same ones that I naturally feel like are right in my heart or conscience …….Is he my Savior??.....I suppose I could logically concede to that because I’ll admit that going to church has definitely been good for my family and put me on a better path for life in general……and that church is there because of Jesus……Is he the son of God??.....This is where I want to believe such but I cant help but to also recognize that we are not the first and only humans in history to believe really strongly that someone was God or a god, etc……We’re really giving ourselves a lot of credit here to think that WE are the ones who have gotten it right and everyone else is wrong and burning in hell.
CNC, logically speaking, Jesus fulfilled every single prophecy to the T written of in the Old Testament. He’s still got a few more to go (Second coming). It’s not about what WE think or believe. It’s about what HE said. No other deity did what Christ did, and there’s plenty of archaeological evidence to fully support He was and is who He said He was. Does it take faith to believe in the Trinity, a virgin birth, a parting sea, a whale spitting a guy up on dry land, healing sick people, raising your own self? Yes absolutely. But does the evidence (even non-biblical) draw the conclusion that what is written in the Bible occurred and is still occurring? Absolutely it does. Keep digging friend.