• lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    The new testament is pretty clear that Jesus will return within their life time. Paul is like “don’t make any major life changes, Jesus is coming soon enough.” They struggle with questions like how come some of us are dead and Jesus still isn’t back? Guess what, all of them are dead by now.

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        So you are talking explicitly about the gospels and not anything else? Because in another comment you talked about the new testament in general so I’m confused you reject a big bunch of it

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            That is very true. You can’t try to analyze it, you just have to accept it as true no matter what. To do otherwise can break that belief. It’s why many non-believers used to be Christians until they broke this rule.

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            Does it really matter? I identified as Christian for a long time and still sympathize with certain Christian strands. I read all 4 of the 96 gospels at one point of my life. I don’t consider myself a believer and neither an expert but I might have a clue of what I’m talking about

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            I like your combination of commitment and inability to convey a coherent strain of thought, so if by fight you mean trying to understand you, than yes, let’s have this fight.

            Are you implying that Jesus is still alive? What are the implications of his death only mentioned in 6 out of 96 gospels? Gospel is a brought term. The Gospel of Thomas for example doesn’t have a narrative, just a collection of quotes. Other gospels tell a particular story. Imagine having a story about an event in childhood and the story doesn’t end with “much later he died”.

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                I think people haven’t gotten to the point of arguing with you because they have no idea what you’re trying to say.

                To be clear, I’m not arguing with you either.

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                I reacted to something I thought was important to your argument because I still don’t know what your argument actually is