>>10413583 (PB)
There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Heretic.
>>10413551 (PB)
False. God was always going to reveal Himself to the world. He just did that through the jews, who He then destroyed in 70AD with the destruction of the temple.
There are no jews of the Old Testament left. Their genealogies have been destroyed. Their religion is over, they have no priests. They have no sacrifices. Because God came back and wants all of His children to love Him and worship Him together.
Don't buy the jewish lies.
The Church is the thing satan hates the most, so it is no wonder that he would infiltrate and try to destroy God's Church.
The Church is made up of fallible men. We've gone centuries now where we've had "Christians" who curse the Pope and the Church. We are reaping the rewards of that.
You explain how a "man," who is not God, can predict his death, know when he's going to die, reattach the ear of someone whose ear had been cut off, then after dying rise from the dead and appear to hundreds of people at the same time.
If you can do that, I'll understand where your mumbo-jumbo about "deification of a person who has shared knowledge" comes from. Because that's not "knowledge."
God exists, which we can confirm by natural reason. Christ said He was God, which we can affirm by eye-witness accounts. Christ rose from the dead, which we can affirm by eye-witness accounts. Christ is God.
The Liar, Lunatic, Lord test of CS Lewis also shows the lie of your nonsense. Christ claimed He was God, not a "wise man with shared knowledge". So He either knew He wasn't God, and said He was (liar), didn't know He wasn't God, and said He was (lunatic), or He knew He was God and said He was (Lord). Those are your options. You don't get to say He was a "nice guy". Doesn't work.
Because Christ didn't leave a book, He left a Church. The Church has apostolic succession. So like your body is renewed every 7 years (the cells die and new ones take their place), the body of God's Church is renewed every generation. The knowledge was past down from generation to generation, in the same body. That knowledge includes the knowledge of Christ's resurrection.
But if you're going to question the authenticity of the Bible, which has thousands of manuscripts spanning thousands of miles, over hundreds of years, you're going to have to explain how they all say substantially the same thing, and what part of the book you think is a lie. Because this criticism is just flaccid in context.
"People who know more than you" are your authority. You were a child. When you were a child, you literally couldn't care for yourself. You would have died if someone didn't take care of you for years after you were born.
That's the natural law. That's why God said "honor thy father and mother", because they are responsible for you.
So I don't know what you think you're proving with this, other than the fact that you need to follow your culture. It is this "extreme individualism" that you're parroting that has allowed the rot of America, to the point where it's hated. But that's the logical consequence of the ideology you're espousing.
But fundamentally, nothing you said is any evidence, much less proof, that Jesus wasn't God. It's what is known as the "genetic fallacy". That is, even if the method by which someone achieves knowledge is wrong, that doesn't mean the knowledge is wrong. If I learned that the earth is a sphere in a comic book, that wouldn't make my knowledge that the earth is a sphere wrong.
So your argument fails.
And where did you learn this?
No. This country was built on groups of people coming together to build a vibrant society. One built on God and the Church.
You don't even know your history, but think you're wise. Carl Jung would call you the epitome of "Modern Man".
You cannot live alone, and you cannot thrive alone. You're trying to convince someone, who would be on your side, that being completely individualistic, not realizing what the strategy "divide and conquer" means.
Grow up.
He calls everyone to Him. Everyone who comes to Him will be with Him in Heaven.
The jews blinded themselves, and God gave them over to their blindness. Those who call themselves jews but are not, for they are the synagogue of satan can repent and be saved, but that is up to them to do so.
I don't know why you think God doesn't want all people to be saved, though. That's just weird.