Originally Posted by antlers
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Christianity in this modern era just doesn't have a leg to stand on.
2.5 billion believers in Christianity in the world today would likely disagree with your point of view regarding this.
Many of them devotedly ascribe to the life and teachings of Jesus.....and believing that He is the Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Bible, and then chronicled in the New Testament, and believing that Jesus was/is the Son of God who ministered, suffered, and died on a cross, and rose from the dead for the salvation of mankind.....and their belief and commitment to Jesus is at the heart and center of their lives.

The New Testament isn’t a book, it’s actually a small library of 27 different books, written by different authors with different backgrounds and different perspectives, who individually chose which information they decided to emphasize and which information they decided to omit, with different ways of telling the story of the person...in this case, Jesus...whose life they are documenting.

You go to your local library and see 27 different books on ‘any’ historical figure...in ancient history or modern history...and those different books are written by different authors with different backgrounds and different perspectives, who individually chose which information they decided to emphasize and which information they decided to omit, with different ways of telling the story of the person whose life they are documenting...whether it’s Julius Caesar or Douglas MacArthur. And none of those differences mentioned above diminish the reality and the historicity of the person they are writing about in any way whatsoever.

When people discredit the New Testament, they’re not discrediting a book, they’re discrediting 27 different books. The same as to discredit 27 different books about Julius Caesar, or to discredit 27 different books about Douglas MacArthur, because of the differences mentioned above.

And, even if ‘no’ books were ‘ever’ written about Julius Caesar, or Douglas MacArthur...for example..., that in no way whatsoever diminishes their reality and historicity. They existed, they were real, and the events of their lives happened. And this isn’t so because of the books that were written about them; books were written about them because this is so.

It is the same with Jesus.

I agree with him. Christianity was about saving one's soul and loving each other but now. its something else. I sort a relationship with God and not to be known n the church or Contributing money to some rich pastor who owns several private Jets.