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Was Jesus Really Crucified

fallingblood

Agnostic Theist
Another excuse.

Come back when you are able to discuss scripture directly.
Why don't you come back once you can actually form a logical debate. From all I see, all you can do is whine when someone shows that you're wrong, and then you fall into the infantile act of insulting others because you simply do not know how to debate.

It really just seems as if you are in two deep now. You're over your head, and really can't prove anything, so you fall into the trap of attacking the messenger and not the message. Maybe you would like to try to actually deal with the message, but I'm sure that is too hard for you, considering you really are over your head here.
 

Bowman

Active Member
Why don't you come back once you can actually form a logical debate. From all I see, all you can do is whine when someone shows that you're wrong, and then you fall into the infantile act of insulting others because you simply do not know how to debate.

It really just seems as if you are in two deep now. You're over your head, and really can't prove anything, so you fall into the trap of attacking the messenger and not the message. Maybe you would like to try to actually deal with the message, but I'm sure that is too hard for you, considering you really are over your head here.


And the excuse train continues...
 

sojourner

Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
And the excuse train continues...
Dear God! Please! For the love of Pete -- debate something here. There's a time to parry, thrust and evade. So far, all you've done is rattle your saber and evade. Join the battle with something substantial!
 

Bowman

Active Member
Dear God! Please! For the love of Pete -- debate something here. There's a time to parry, thrust and evade. So far, all you've done is rattle your saber and evade. Join the battle with something substantial!

Bring forth some scripture for discussion, brother...after all, you are in a 'SCRIPTURAL DEBATE' forum...
 

sojourner

Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
Bring forth some scripture for discussion, brother...after all, you are in a 'SCRIPTURAL DEBATE' forum...
You seem to think the emphasis is on "scriptural." However, the emphasis is on "debate," for that's the kind of forum this is -- a debate forum. "Scriptural" only modifies "debate."
Bring on a debate, and we'll debate. I don't care if it's about Miley Cyrus' acne problem, so long as it's a debate.
 

fallingblood

Agnostic Theist
And...it continues...
I know, your avoidance tactics are unbelievable.

Until you can add some substance to your posts instead of just avoidance tactics, I won't be responding to you anymore. As can be seen in this thread, it simply is a waste of time because you really have such a lack of understanding that it is just amazing. If you can't debate, that's fine, but don't peddle your blind faith on others.
 

Bowman

Active Member
I know, your avoidance tactics are unbelievable.

Until you can add some substance to your posts instead of just avoidance tactics, I won't be responding to you anymore. As can be seen in this thread, it simply is a waste of time because you really have such a lack of understanding that it is just amazing. If you can't debate, that's fine, but don't peddle your blind faith on others.


And yet you slavishly reply...
 

dogsgod

Well-Known Member
Yes, the Son of God really did come to earth and he really did die on the cross, and the gospels really are history texts. It's all true and those that doubt it are crazy.
 

fallingblood

Agnostic Theist
Yes, the Son of God really did come to earth and he really did die on the cross, and the gospels really are history texts. It's all true and those that doubt it are crazy.
You really haven't read this thread at all have you? Ignorance may be bliss, but there is little room for it in an actual debate.
 

Muffled

Jesus in me
A correct assessment according to you. Plus, Jesus does, in one Gospel, basically dismiss his family. It may be interpreted many ways, but that is because people want to make Jesus look perfect. However, throughout the Gospels, we see him as a human. He gets angry. He gets sad. He shows human emotions, and thus the shows his humanity. It is only logical that he also sinned, and we do see it in various places.

I was saying that he was sinning by breaking the law. He was a Jew, that is what is important in this case. He broke the law, and thus sinned.

That is not reason at all. And if we look at what he said, in Matthew we are told that he did not come here to abolish the law. That one must obey the law more adherently than most Jews.

That really doesn't matter in this case. We have to look at why one would be baptized in Judaism. That reason shines negatively on the idea that Jesus was sinless.

God in human form should be expected to have human emotions. However having emotions does not equate to committing sin. Certainly one could expect a human spirit in a body to sin but not God. The fact that Jesus did not sin is one of the many facts supporting His divinity and His death on the cross as a sacrificial lamb without blemish. Joh 1:36 and he looked upon Jesus as he walked, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God!

However your view that Jesus sinned is from man's perspective not from God's perspective. The Law was given to Moses to help the people of Israel not to supplant God. THe jews have taken the Law and replaced God with it. Not only that but they added to and changed the law to man's ideas (not the Tenach itself but the way the Tenach was interpreted). Jesus returns the law to its proper place as subserviant to God.
The Qu'ran talks about this tendency to change God's word by reinterpretation and Muslims and Christians are just as guilty of doing it as were the Jews.

First of all there was no baptism in Judaism. There was ritual washing by priests before entering the Holy of Holies. John the Baptist introduced Baptism calling on people to repent and be baptized but the testimony of John was that Jesus had no need to be baptized (because He was without sin). Mat 3:15 But Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffereth him. Jesus is not confessing sin in this verse, He is simply saying that Baptism is the right thing to do. If Jesus had cofessed sin there would be a legitimate reason to say He sinned but the fact that He did not does not reflect negatively upon Him and God the Father appears to agree:
Mat 5:17 and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.


 

sojourner

Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
First of all there was no baptism in Judaism. There was ritual washing by priests before entering the Holy of Holies. John the Baptist introduced Baptism
First of all, baptism was common in Judaic culture. Second, even if John "introduced" baptism, what do you think John was? and Jesus? Presbyterians? They were Jews!
 

Faybull

Well-Known Member
That's why He did not sin...He had a little help in that area. He did not have the same genes/DNA as normal men. That's why Joseph could not be His father...the Holy Spirit had to impregnate Mary....


You do understand that an egg is fertilized by sperm?
I can't tell if you are using sarcasm or not.
 

Nietzsche

The Last Prussian
Premium Member
Its all a metaphorical story, so take it whatever way you want from the story.
As with all things, there is a grain of truth. There was likely a Jesus of Nazareth, son of Mary, and was a heretical Rabbi at roughly that time.

My problem with the story is the nature of the crucifixion. Rome rarely, if ever, used it as a sentence of death. The only notable time was with the Spartacus uprising. I think Jesus merely went into a death-like state. I mean, medical knowledge was not exactly the best. It is entirely possible to be assumed dead without actually being so without finely tuned equipment.
 
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