@specman i’m being hypocritical? What do you mean?
And I can’t read the Bible. There’s too much irrelevant stuff. It just drains my energy.

@Ferise1 you sound a little bit like you don’t believe. Why be saved or how can you follow Christ when you know nothing about him? I know some about Him but not everything. The Bible does sound contradictory, but it is not. I had a pastor explain that to me, but tbh I don’t remember what all he said. I walk by faith not by what I see. The Christian religion is based on faith. If you have questions I am no scholar. Just a sinner that has a goal.

@Ferise1 I used to.
But we are not meant to go by feelings but to stand on the promises that are in scripture.

@Matt85 that’s convenient

@Ferise1 not convenient, covenant.

@specman The Norse gods are at least plausible so I can accept they might exist in some form. For example, is Father Xmas/Winter the personification of that force which drives us to exchange gifts in winter? Gods that are self-contradictory, such as the christian god, are just not plausible.

@Sharon walk by faith not by sight is the jest of the Christian religion.

@Sharontbh that’s hard sometimes

@Dayman343 It doesn't. This Jesus character is just a myth.

@Sharon He may have existed, I guess we'll never know for sure. It's just all the other stuff about him I'm dubious about

@Dayman343 It's possible there was an itinerant preacher or just a rabble rouser (The PFJ?) but that name but there or no contemporaneous records to support that claim. It's certainly not credible that anyone could go around doing the things it's claimed he did without anyone, not even the Romans, making a note of it.

Another possibility it that the name was just a rallying call, a figurehead, of a rebel movement, much as some believe Robin Hood was.