Comments on: DID JESUS CLAM TO BE GOD?

By: Citizen Tom

Citizen Tom — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:13:27 +0000

John Doe - We humans are naturally busybodies. We are easily threatened by any example that is contrary to our own. Moreover, we like to exercise power over others. It builds up our pride and makes us feel god-like. So we enthusiastically try to make others do as we do. In at least two ways, Christianity counteracts our tendency to be wrathful busybodies.

--Jesus taught two great commands: to love God above and to love our neighbors. Love puts God before our pride. To be saved, we must become humble and put God before the self. We must seek to become his hands and feet and serve our neighbors as we wish to be served.
--Jesus did not force anyone to love Him or to adopt His religious teachings. Since Jesus set the example Christians must follow, Christians have no business forcing our beliefs on anyone else.

So it is that although Christians have much to do before they become perfect, they do tend be relatively peaceful.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:55:00 +0000

Yup. If I wasn’t “religious” I’d still admire Christianity. And condemn Islam. Sorry to be controversial, but “the proof is in the pudding.” Everywhere there are Moslems, there are also problems. The war-like, women hating, murdering terrorist Moslems give the other 10% a bad name.

And no, it isn’t a logical response to say, “Yeah, but the Christians used to do bad things, too.” That was hundreds of years ago, by those who perverted the Christian religion. Those who are peaceful Moslems now-a-days are those who don’t take their religion and the Koran literally. Besides, I am alive now, and I judge religions by their effect, and the effect of Islam on the world is TERRIBLE. If all you peaceful Moslems out there don’t enjoy such criticism, TAKE BACK YOUR “RELIGION OF PEACE” from your warring brethren.

And no, I am not just being Christian-centric. Mormans are not “Christians” but I have nothing but respect for their peaceful, good for society effect on the world. I would never dream of condemning peace-loving Buddhists.

Oooops. Way off topic. But I think that the main reason so many do not recognize the importance of Christianity is because they feel personally attacked by some of the chief precepts of Christ. The Ten Commandments and all that. “Hmmmm. If I recognize all that stuff, there are a lot of things that I must cease doing, and other things that I don’t want to do I’ll have to start doing! Easier to just condemn that stuff!”

By: Citizen Tom

Citizen Tom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:31:24 +0000

John Doe – It is a curious thing is that so many do not recognize the importance of religion, particularly Christianity. We live in an era that condemns the religious for being warlike. Yet, atheists create the most tyrannical societies and commit the worst bloodlettings.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:34:55 +0000

You left out one other option. As the song goes, lord liar or lunatic. If he wasn’t lying, and he wasn’t really God, (and the Bible is true), then he must have been a lunatic to believe himself to be God.

No person in history changed so many lives for the better. I know, I KNOW, “the church” and christians all through the ages have been imperfect. But some of the most perfect have been Christians. Mother Theresa, all those missionaries who go into the darkest recesses of the world, all those hospitals and good will trips. IF Jesus were a mere lunatic, we need more such lunatics. And if the Bible is “full of lies”, we need more such books.