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Originally Posted by Anthesian
I agree. Essentially, I'm trying to recognize and understand the effects of a possibly fabricated story this is 2000 years old.
Is the abstract idea we call 'faith' enough? Faith lacks physical merit. I'm okay with that. Is it possible that we allow a possibly fictional story to dictate the way we live our lives?
The idea of a 'testimony' which is based solely on that warm fuzzy feeling in our chest isn't enough either. It isn't a blanket that keeps us warm but a blanket that clouds our vision of a possible truth instead of supposed known truth.
To the point...What if Jesus isn't who we have been told he was? I'm not trying to create doubt. I will leave that up to the individual. But what does this mean for Christianity? What course do we choose if this is true?
Or is Nietzche right when he stated that the only true Christian died on the cross and the rest are all hypocrites? Does this mean that Christianity died with the supposed son of God?
These are just things I have been thinking about from my NT class and my philosophy class.
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My faith has no problem accomodating the notion that Jesus was only a man. I've arrived at a deeper core truth/belief/faith that accomodates skepticism, faith, transcendent religious figures, atrocities, evolution, spirituality of pre-humans, etc.
And no, I'm not an athiest.