Personally i've always liked Jews because they're warm friendly people and seem to have broken their old habit of killing prophets, so they're all right by me, I've worked at two jewish family-owned firms and got on great with them, and am a big Judge Judy fan..:)
Matthew, Luke and John give pretty good accounts..:)
PS, as a feminist, I'd have thought you'd have liked Jesus, he always had time to chat with women-
At his execution some of the disciples ran off in fear of the Romans but women stuck with him to the end, it's almost as if he knew they'd...
Right, "Judge not that ye be not judged"
Anyway I'm not judging nonchristians and atheists (God himself will do that), I'm simply quoting what the bible says about them, so don't shoot the messenger..:)
For examp I'm an ex-convict (3 month vigilante rap in 2002), and in my younger days I used...
Jesus strutted his miracle stuff in full public view, thats a lot of eyewitnesses..:)
Wait, I feel a speculation coming on!!!-
Perhaps prayer is a kind of "thought pressure" that can influence this dream we call "reality", so perhaps Jesus was a "Master of the Art of Dream Manipulation", and he...
Whoa, 58 other gospels and writings never made it into the NT, how many more do you want?..:)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gospels
Gospel of Thomas
Gospel of Marcion
Gospel of Basilides
Gospel of Truth (Valentinian)
Gospel of the Four Heavenly Realms
Gospel of Mary
Gospel of Judas...
JC's execution took place in front of the whole of Jerusalem, that's a lot of eyeballs so no wonder the priests and Romans never dared to say later that it was all baloney and never happened..:)
Yes that's great, and it might even get them to the pearlies, but whether they get let through is another matter.
The bouncer will ask them ONE question- "Are you a Christian?" and if they say "No", he's bound to tell them-
"Oppit"
Jesus's 37 miracles were "Superscience" in action, and furthermore he said WE could do it too ("move mountains") if we had the knack, how kool is that..:)
But all the other founders of other religions were not Christians, and as heaven is a "Christians Only" gated community, they can't be up there or it'd be a case of "oops there goes the neighbourhood"..:)
Pilate pronounced Jesus "Not guilty" so obviously he never considered him a threat..:)
"Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”
Finally Pilate handed him over to...
Ah, but JC was a special case by not only claiming to be the Messiah, the Christ and the Son of God, but also he claimed he'd rise after 3 days so no wonder the snooty priests and Romans were in a tizzy.
So they put their heads together and decided to roll a boulder over the tomb entrance and...
You're not a straight-laced fundy literalist religionist by any chance are you mate?
Like I've said, speculation is FUN, for example I like to speculate that the blonde shopgirl in the grocers likes older men and that I might therefore be in with a chance..:)
Logic it out Sherlock-
Pilate and the priests knew Jesus had claimed he'd rise from the dead, so they rolled a boulder over the tomb entrance and stationed two sentries there to make sure he couldn't get out, and yet he still did, heck not even Penn and Teller could explain it..:)
But mate you're missing out on the FUN of speculation..:)
You can think giants mated with human women if you like, but christians would say it'd be a tad painful for the poor women..:)