If you don't or do believe in God.

[Kaendar]

Where are they? I have never heard of a book with first-hand account of his life and AFAIK, no authorship has been attributed to any of his Apostles.

Most of the ​

books

of the New Testament were written by apostles or other disciples of Jesus Christ. Matthew the apostle wrote a gospel. John the apostle wrote a gospel, three epistles and Revelation. Peter the apostle wrote two epistles, although recent scholarship has indicated that "2 Peter" was written many decades after his death by a follower. James and Jude each wrote an epistle, but they are probably not the two apostles by those names but two others known as brothers of the Lord.Mark, a follower of Peter, wrote a gospel. Luke, a follower of Paul, wrote a gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. Paul, an apostle but not one of the twelve who followed Jesus Christ during his public life, wrote 13 epistles. The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews is unknown.


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[mindphuk]

Most of the ​

books

of the New Testament were written by apostles or other disciples of Jesus Christ. Matthew the apostle wrote a gospel. John the apostle wrote a gospel, three epistles and Revelation. Peter the apostle wrote two epistles, although recent scholarship has indicated that "2 Peter" was written many decades after his death by a follower. James and Jude each wrote an epistle, but they are probably not the two apostles by those names but two others known as brothers of the Lord.Mark, a follower of Peter, wrote a gospel. Luke, a follower of Paul, wrote a gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. Paul, an apostle but not one of the twelve who followed Jesus Christ during his public life, wrote 13 epistles. The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews is unknown.


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Right, because uncited, unsourced material on answers.com are generally more accurate and truthful than scholarly works written by actual historians.

Just because you want it to be true does not make the orthodox Xian claims of authorship to be true.

Scholars say that the authors of the New Testament gospels quite clearly had not met Jesus. The authors of Matthew and Luke relied on Mark and the hypothetical 'Q' document for their knowledge of the life and message of Jesus, while the author of John appears to have relied on Luke and, to some extent, Mark. It is clear, in turn, that the author of Mark was unfamiliar with Palestinian geography and local culture, and could never have met Jesus.

The Epistles of James, Peter, John and Jude are clearly pseudonymous and were written by church leaders who had no personal acquaintance with Jesus or his disciples.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament

 

[ThE sAtIvA hIgH]

God came to me in person ( and in a dream ). You don't have to believe me at all. It honestly doesn't matter to me at all. THough kinda does though because if their is hell i don't want anybody going to it.

And not only that, Jesus Christ also Came to me. I'm not bragging. I'm saying this is some real fuckin shit that's going on. Christianity is not bull shit. Not saying it's complete truth neither. But From my knowledge The Creator Sent a being into existence known as Jesus Christ. And He was half god half human. Born of mother mary By the Holy Spirit.

So i guess you could call him an Alien, Or God being Born as a Human. And he felt tremendous pain. So he is The Lord and Savior. King of all Kings.. Deny him if you must, but it will not end pretty. I'm telling you guys, if i had a way to tell the whole entire world, or better yet entire Universe about him, I would. No hesitation. But i can't so for now, i'm just telling y'all. Label me crazy or ignorant or even delusional. But that does not change the fact's. And the fact is that God is real and so is His Son. Sorry if you don't believe, but i would like for you all to believe.And i don't want you to stop your lifestyle, but maybe every now and then give thanks to God for all that he blessed you with, and maybe just maybe give thanks to Jesus Christ, the Messiah! That's all.

i had a muslim guy say allmost the exact same thing to me once , but he was going on about a different god than yours .................damn now wich one of you should i believe ?

 

[Shannon Alexander]

i had a muslim guy say allmost the exact same thing to me once , but he was going on about a different god than yours .................damn now wich one of you should i believe ?

It's not a different god.. it is the same god... Just a different language and a different prophet...

 

[ThE sAtIvA hIgH]

It's not a different god.. it is the same god... Just a different language and a different prophet...

you have to be kidding right ? .........only a mellow so called christian could ever say that , go the middle east and tell people that they are actually worshipping the same god as everyone else and see how long your head remains attached to your body .lol
that is one of the most obsurd things ive ever read on here lol it wasnt long ago christians were spilling blood across the globe because people were worshipping different gods .all the religious wars throughout history and still going on today , and you say oh actually we are all worshipping the same god ? lol wow some people live a shelterd and misguided life .
and thats not even getting started on how the holy books contradict each other and can not possibly be the same god .
there was suppopsedly gods around ( people were worshiping gods ) before christianity states the world even existed lol

 

[Shannon Alexander]

I'm not a Christian... And the holy books contradict themselves without the help of other books from the other religions...

Judaism precedes Christianity which then leads on to the Islamic faith that accepts Jesus as a prophet...

Soooooo... Same god, Different Language, Different interpretation...

 

[jessy koons]

Most of the ​

books

of the New Testament were written by apostles or other disciples of Jesus Christ. Matthew the apostle wrote a gospel. John the apostle wrote a gospel, three epistles and Revelation. Peter the apostle wrote two epistles, although recent scholarship has indicated that "2 Peter" was written many decades after his death by a follower. James and Jude each wrote an epistle, but they are probably not the two apostles by those names but two others known as brothers of the Lord.Mark, a follower of Peter, wrote a gospel. Luke, a follower of Paul, wrote a gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. Paul, an apostle but not one of the twelve who followed Jesus Christ during his public life, wrote 13 epistles. The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews is unknown.


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Gosh K, you were up late last night working on your beautiful thoughts. I woke up this morning with a biblical sized, jesus loving woody for you, my friend. I hope your ass has healed a little from that asstastic ass fucking I gave you yesterday. I saw in a different thread that you like to be fisted, great I hear that jesus liked fisting too. I don't know if he was a giver or a taker; my guess is taker because it's more in turn with the people who believe in him. Are you a cop? I have another wonderful fantasy about cops, fire hydrants and dalmatians. Bye

 

[Doer]

i had a muslim guy say allmost the exact same thing to me once , but he was going on about a different god than yours .................damn now wich one of you should i believe ?

Will we ever come to the point? There are not different Gods. There is either One or none.

 

[Doer]

I'm not a Christian... And the holy books contradict themselves without the help of other books from the other religions...

Judaism precedes Christianity which then leads on to the Islamic faith that accepts Jesus as a prophet...

Soooooo... Same god, Different Language, Different interpretation...

Right, one IT, perhaps. Everybody talks about the elephant but no one has seen it. West religion, Central and East. West is Abrahamic, Central is the Buddha/Krishna/Hindu complex, and East is Taoist/Legalist (Lao Tsu and Confusius)

 

[Zaehet Strife]

Will we ever come to the point? There are not different Gods. There is either One or none.

...there could be billions, no one knows.

 

[ThE sAtIvA hIgH]

I'm not a Christian... And the holy books contradict themselves without the help of other books from the other religions...

Judaism precedes Christianity which then leads on to the Islamic faith that accepts Jesus as a prophet...

Soooooo... Same god, Different Language, Different interpretation...

my problem with that would be why would this allmighty god send out different prophets with different storys , only one can be telling the truth , and the quran says to live and act completely different than the bible does , so why is that ?
lets imagine for one crazy moment it was true there is one god , that would mean millions of people are destined for hell simply because they are following a different interpretation of this one gods demands .that would be massively unfair .it would mean a muslim suicide bomber , would go straight to hell for killing a room full of christians , thinking he was actually killing infedils and going to heaven lol i cant even get my head around how stupid all of it is lol this one all knowing god has (depending on what land mass you were happend to be born on ) millions of different people all following completely different rules , why doesnt he sort that crazy mess out ?

 

[Doer]

First don't assume God is this mircro-manager, sender of Prophets. Could it not be instead, these prophets are intersecting something with their senses and making some sense of it and calling IT into words?

So, the tower of Babel. As soon as we collaspe the probablity of Omni, we ascribe our meger human thought to IT and call it Diety.

Once we start discribing the un-discribable, we by difintion are no longer talking about IT. We are discribing in the blind, without concept. So, don't get confused with all the discription and don't think the Giant Space Alien or whatever, if any, is in any mood or even has the will to sort us out.

We have the will, remember? Most if not all Religion today has swerved into a fate touting, dice rolling stance. Inasha Allah. In God hands. God's will be done.

We must first know ourselves, to possibly understand how that could be in God's image. Or not.

 

[Zaehet Strife]

First don't assume God is this mircro-manager, sender of Prophets.

First... don't assume anything about god. You nor anyone else knows anything about it. If you think you do... *whispers- it's all in your head.

 

[ThE sAtIvA hIgH]

First don't assume God is this mircro-manager, sender of Prophets. Could it not be instead, these prophets are intersecting something with their senses and making some sense of it and calling IT into words?

So, the tower of Babel. As soon as we collaspe the probablity of Omni, we ascribe our meger human thought to IT and call it Diety.

Once we start discribing the un-discribable, we by difintion are no longer talking about IT. We are discribing in the blind, without concept. So, don't get confused with all the discription and don't think the Giant Space Alien or whatever, if any, is in any mood or even has the will to sort us out.

We have the will, remember? Most if not all Religion today has swerved into a fate touting, dice rolling stance. Inasha Allah. In God hands. God's will be done.

We must first know ourselves, to possibly understand how that could be in God's image. Or not.

i love how modern religious people are now completely swerving and dodging away from the traditional stance religious people took , now that the old ways of following gods word from the bible quaran etc have been ripped apart and completely flawed by criticaly thinking people and people have become more knowlegdable about the world and how things work , the desperate die hards now find ways to put themselves back into a position were they think they can dismiss the things that prove them wrong , like how they now say 'well the bible isnt to be taken literally ' or 'religion is open to interpretation ' the list goes on and on .
its that same old argument , i could say i have a pet dragon , and then when asked why cant they see it , i say its invisible , they say why cant i touch it , i say it moves out of the way , they say why cant i comunicate with it , i say , it only comunicates through thoughts etc etc etc its a never ending argument and its how religion works and its how religion dodges the blatently obvious flaws it has .

 

[Zaehet Strife]

i love how modern religious people are now completely swerving and dodging away from the traditional stance religious people took , now that the old ways of following gods word from the bible quaran etc have been ripped apart and completely flawed by criticaly thinking people and people have become more knowlegdable about the world and how things work , the desperate die hards now find ways to put themselves back into a position were they think they can dismiss the things that prove them wrong , like how they now say 'well the bible isnt to be taken literally ' or 'religion is open to interpretation ' the list goes on and on .
its that same old argument , i could say i have a pet dragon , and then when asked why cant they see it , i say its invisible , they say why cant i touch it , i say it moves out of the way , they say why cant i comunicate with it , i say , it only comunicates through thoughts etc etc etc its a never ending argument and its how religion works and its how religion dodges the blatently obvious flaws it has .

+ Rep for a great point, critical hit.

"Sometimes when i look at you i get sad because you're not a dragon..."

 

[cannabineer]

It's not a different god.. it is the same god... Just a different language and a different prophet...

Imo the different prophet is the key. Same destination; different gateways. I doubt Saudia will honor frequent flyer miles from El Al. cn

 

[robert 14617]

i don't want to be a spoil alert , yet if the creator,of all life and all will presented itself to me ...i would get a picture..don't think i wouldn't

 

[cannabineer]

i don't want to be a spoil alert , yet if the creator,of all life and all will presented itself to me ...i would get a picture..don't think i wouldn't

Remember the video recorder in Contact? I would not trust a simple data device. After all, any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from divine attention. cn

<edit> Bettie!!!

 

[robert 14617]

once an navel admeril ...4 star wanted to have a photo with me ... a young marine ..i rock and still do , any thing that rocks your would stop and take a pic , or it never happened

 

[Kaendar]

I do have to agree tho, christians, jews, and muslims all worship and believe in the same god.