BehindBlueI's
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- Oct 3, 2012
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II prefer to focus on something more recent, something that WAS observed and verbally recorded - Jesus. Was he who he claimed to be? It not, it's a sham and I'll agree with Paul (not our mod) that Xtians are pathetic. But if he was who he claimed, it changes everything. From there you can start to make the connections and the evidence becomes overwhelming.
I'm going to paint a hypothetical for you, with the clear understanding it is a hypothetical.
Let's say I hated you. I just absolutely despised you because a Jetta ran over my dog once. Just seeing your name made me want to shake you and weep about my poor lost doggy. However, I decide that despite my hatred for you I'm going to treat you like a friend. I am nice to you. I send you cookies on your birthday. I tell people what an awesome person JettaKnight is and encourage them to be your friend to. Then I die still hating you to the very core of my being but never breaking the mask.
Is the fact I hated you relevant? No one but me knew. I did not allow my hatred to change the world. In fact I overcompensated and probably made the place a bit better. The "truth" may be I hated you. The "truth" is also I treated you like my friend. Which matters?
Now, I say that to say this:
It doesn't even really matter if he was who he claimed to be. He was a pretty awesome guy, by all accounts, and he taught a better way to live with each other. Even if I had some incredible time machine and universal truth detector, if he was or he was not...his lessons are the same and his effect on us should be the same. They have the same punch. They have the same ability to make us better people should we be able to implement them. His example and his guidance are the same, no matter who he was.
So I will disagree with you. Even if it were proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was not who he claimed to be, your faith is not a sham.