Jesus didn’t claim to be the son of god. Read Mark’s gospel from an original manuscript, not the version edited by 2nd century Christians. (Early manuscripts don’t have the term son of god in verse 1, and stop at the end of chapter 16 verse 8. The last seen of Jesus is dead on the cross - not...
Have you actually read the creation stories in Genesis? It’s nonsense, and I’ll explain why.
Genesis chapters 1 and 2 tell two different, inconsistent, creation stories. Was god’s name Elohim or YHWH? It changes from chapter 1 to 2. Why? (Clue: Genesis is copied from two different creation...
Jesus was from Nazareth. But later his followers added a nativity story (actually, two inconsistent nativity stories), which had him born in Bethlehem to satisfy Old Testament prophecies. If he really had been born in Bethlehem, he would have been known as Jesus of Bethlehem, not Jesus of Nazareth.
Let’s examine that claim.
Muslims think that Muhammad is the divinely inspired prophet who, as a result of conversations with the angel Gabriel, wrote the Quran and helped found Islam. Do you agree? No, if you did you’d be a Muslim, not a Christian.
Muslims think that Jesus was man who was a...
You are absolutely right that Christianity is confused - and so are you! Jesus taught salvation by loving your neighbour. It was Paul who added the stuff about the resurrection.
Jesus started a Jewish, messianic cult. Paul turned it into something very, very different.
The disciples didn’t write the gospels. They were written decades later by people who had never met Jesus, in a different language than that spoken by Jesus.
The New Testament does reference Old Testament prophesies. Many are taken out of context, and so are not a prophecy of what the New...
You doubt that life could have evolved spontaneously, yet you believe in the existence of an invisible super being. Why don’t you apply the same level of incredulity to the existence of god?
No, I don't think we'd have had such a rush of mad fuckwits trying to be PM without Brexit. Part of the reason for Brexit was to try to right a supposed democratic deficit. But, I suggest, that Brexit has failed the country in this respect (and in many others).
Brexit was supposed to improve our democrary. After Brexit, Boris won a landslide victory - then got thrown out for being, well, Boris. Liz Truss won a vote of Tory members and got thrown out for being, well, Liz Truss. Rishi Sunak, the UK's current PM, actually lost the vote of the conservative...
Some serious scholars do doubt that Jesus ever existed.
Jesus may or may not have been a historical character. But where is the evidence that he was god? Where is the evidence that the historical Jesus is the Jesus that is described in the bible and is worshipped by Christians? Please show us...
Many Messiah figures had real followings and were crucified. That doesn’t make them God. Lots of people are convinced (without evidence) that they have “seen” a dead loved one. Doesn’t make it true.
The gospels were written AFTER Paul had his vision and wrote his letters (well, the ones that...
Many scholars (but not all) do indeed think there was a real person called Jesus who was crucified, and that some of his followers believed that he rose from the dead. But that does not validate the Christian religion.
You invoke the scholarship of Bart Ehrman. Does Dr Ehrman beileve that...
You say he's given us free will, but if we choose to exercise it and not have a relationship with him we are condemed to eternal damnation. So not quite so "free", is it?