Viker
Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
Greatest Of All Time.
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IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
Well, to Christians he is. But not to non-Christians. He really has no impact on my life at all.
Viker
Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
I tend to agree.
Sand Dancer
Currently catless
Noo! I don't want that in my head!
Exaltist Ethan
Bridging the Gap Between Believers and Skeptics
Jesus is a prime example of human extropy. As a human carpenter and making stuff out of wood he has utility, through his abilities he was generous, he taught men the parable, making them wiser, his sovereignty was through his church and he unity almost a third of the world into one religion - Christianity. If there is another person who had more extropy than Jesus we don’t know about them yet.
Viker
Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
The Antagonist. Without which, there'd be no (need of/for) Christ.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
Jesus had no talents, gifts, or knowledge that couldn't be held by any normal human being. There was nothing exceptional about him.
Exaltist Ethan
Bridging the Gap Between Believers and Skeptics
I agree with what I said but i agree more with what you said, so I don’t call myself a Christian. Also, if we are going to make stories up, Christ should be a mason and not a carpenter. There’s more utility out of being a mason than being a carpenter.
Sand Dancer
Currently catless
He was pretty quick with the comebacks to the conservative religious leaders of his day. He was a counterculture figure. That takes some chutzpah.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
I don't think he was objecting to the religion at all. He did hate hypocrisy, but a person can be very religious and not be a hypocrite. I recommend the book, "Jesus the Pharisee" by Harvey Falk. It explains the debates between Jesus and some of the Pharisees as being understood in the context that Jesus was a Pharisee of the School of Hillel (the more lenient school) and the Sanhedrin was dominated at that time by the School of Shammai (extremely strict). There are many debates between bet Hillel and bet Shammai recorded in the Talmud -- Jesus was participating in a time honored method of religious discourse.
Yes, certainly. He is God almighty and yet also a most humble and wonderful Savior. He's almost too merciful for my tastes, lol.