Let me clarify, I do not intend to be derogatory.
This is a valid question, so do not report me.
Really %26amp; truly all religions are stories. Despite what believers say, there is no factual evidence that Jesus or Muhammad or Ganesha existed.
...people have just gone with the stories that have been told.
Superman is a story too.
Why is it if a man told a Doctor he believed Superman was real, he'd be categorized as mentally ill, but if someone says they believe Jesus could walk on water...they aren't?|||It's a sad shame there are so many brainwashed people in the world today.
"Supposedly" Jesus walked on water...come one, get real people!!
Why is it that ALL these godly figures existed in a time so long ago?
Why aren't there any around today?
Seems a bit suspicious to me...
Michael Jackson could moonwalk. There is actual evidence of that. I regard Jacko's achievements higher than "Jesus"'s because they were actually real.
Oh! and Noah lived to be 950 years old by the way!....yeah right!|||Jesus is a religion. Superman is a comic story. Technically, they are equivalent in terms of being factual and being a story. But think about it: Jesus is part of a religion billions follow, yet Superman is just a comic or movie. What do you think is more important?
When it comes to religion or God, people believe in them because it is an alleviation, a sanctuary, somewhat of a place you can go to seek harmony and inner-peace and help and stuff like that. God is simply a way to bring people together so they can live together without fighting. Imagine if you had no God - People wouldn't be united but divided, the Crusades wouldn't have happened, people would go to crazy stuff because God wouldn't be there to punish them for their sins.
Superman was probably intended not to lead people or teach them anything. It was probably made to ENTERTAIN people.
I think entertainment and sanctuary are too totally different things.
So no, believing Jesus walked on water is NOT equivalent to believing Superman is real.|||Spider-man is a better bet, his stories take place in the real universe not the DC universe. But yes, just about the same. Some people even believe that Superman is just another culture's Jesus. :D
There is actual evidence for Muhammed though, and the guy probably did tell everyone he was a prophet so he could have total control over them and make the rules he wanted to. No actual evidence of Jesus though.|||Yes, in the words of Karl Marx,
"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand."
and one more, from Richard Dawkins,
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."|||There is scant evidence that the person, 'jesus', existed. Look at the gospel of Mark. It was written first. The problem with Mark is that the 'miracles' seem to be totally fictitious. So, imagine if you will, a traveling rabbi who had some good ideas-and some not so good ideas-on getting along with other people. That kind of person (a person, not the son of some god) could have been the basis of the gospel of Mark.|||There are 17 other sources other than the Bible that tell about Jesus and His miracles. Jewish historians, and Roman historians. Jewish historian Josephus, talks about Jesus and His Miracles. Other Roman historians talk about Jesus and His miracles. As I said before, there are 17 sources out side of the Bible that talk about Jesus and His miracles. These are sources that were not friendly to Christians, Josephus was a Jew that hated the Christians, the Roman Empire did not embrace Christianity for over 300 years, yet their historians talked about this Jesus and His miracles. The Bible is much more that a book of stories as the so-called skeptics want you to believe. It is the most proven book in history, with manuscripts dating back to within 150 years of the life of Christ, 25,000 manuscripts of the New Testament alone. Do you believe that Alexander the Great existed? We have only 9 manuscripts that talk about Alexander the Great and they were written 900 years after he was alive, yet no one disputes his existence. There is such a huge double standard when it comes to the Bible when compared to other "historical characters". The Bible has over 50,000 manuscripts as evidence for it, yet people have "questions about it", and the closest historical character, like Alexander the Great, has 9 manuscripts, written hundreds of years after his life, and no one questions his existence.|||If you can't find any differences between a comic book and the Bible, then yes the beliefs are the same. Most people think the Bible is a profound explanation for why we exist and how we should live. I think if you told a psychiatrist you couldn't find any substantial difference in the credibility of the Bible and a Stan Lee comic book, he would recommend some kind of treatment for you.|||"The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en mass what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation."
— Sam Harris
There's no reliable evidence for Jesus, Yahweh, Allah, Zeus, Thor, or any of the thousands of other gods that people have worshipped. See the 1st two links.
See the 3rd link for "Islamic Theologian's Theory: It's Likely the Prophet Muhammad Never Existed"|||Have you ever heard of the word Faith? Well there is factual evidence that Jesus Christ was alive and did all that is recorded in the Bible and is wasn't recorded just by Christians either. Check out Josephus. Muhammad existed as well and there is plenty of records of him as well. So it appears that you are talking out your a.. ! Do a little history research before you make such claims.|||Resurrected after Doomsday...hmm?
Oh, and if you take up Shiloh's challenge to read McDowell's pathetic tracts, visit this website (and many others) for the full rebuttal of "Evidence that Demands a Verdict" with this initial essay EVIDENCE THAT DEMANDS A REFUND...the Christian world is filled with charlatans like McDowell, always taking Christians money without a slight hint at guilt for doing it...not sure the authors of SUPERMAN are really guilty of anything that low - at least they never waiver in the fact that they are selling fantasy|||yep very true, so many religions out there someone has to be wrong!
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also if someone said they were the son of god today know one would believe him and think he was mad obviously no one thought Jesus was insane and took his word for it just because you say you are something doesn't mean that you are, the bible is all bull in my opinion why aren't dinosaurs mentioned in this?|||The first-century Jewish historian Josephus referred to the stoning of “James, the brother of Jesus who was called the Christ.” (The Jewish Antiquities, Josephus, Book XX, sec. 200) A direct and very favorable reference to Jesus, found in Book XVIII, sections 63, 64, has been challenged by some who claim that it must have been either added later or embellished by Christians; but it is acknowledged that the vocabulary and the style are basically those of Josephus, and the passage is found in all available manuscripts.
Tacitus, a Roman historian who lived during the latter part of the first century C.E., wrote: “Christus [Latin for “Christ”], from whom the name [Christian] had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus.”—The Complete Works of Tacitus (New York, 1942), “The Annals,” Book 15, par. 44.|||To be honest I think that they are all stories, yes they might of existed, but like stories they come from the imagination, like a child saying her father is like superman, a child said Jesus was an amazing man and started making up stories that he was soooo amazing I bet he could do stuff like walking on water.|||There is a whole collection of contemporary writings about Jesus, many by writers who knew him personally. Where can you find such a treasure trove of contemporary historical accounts for Cleopatra? Or Marco Polo? Or any other historical figure from that long ago? Why does it bother you that this collection of historical documents were gathered together and bound into a book for your convenience??|||No, Jesus may very well have existed, we'll never know. He wasn't the son of god as there isn't one.
Superman is entirely fictional, although i prefer him to jesus, he can fly and stuff|||I'd be more apt to believe in Superman. He fought bad guys and most people don't interpret that message as 'we need to burn witches'.
Plus, the books Superman is in have pictures!|||Good point, in a couple of thousand years the followers of superman will swear blind he was real, and the people with intelligence will be silently laughing.|||Yes it is.
There is no actual proof of Jesus. None what so ever. When people say they "feel him", that's great "I feel" Superman's arms around me. It's all stupid. Religion is a waste of time.|||Not only SUPERMAN, but DONALD DUCK and HARRY PORTER, too!
I AM NOT KIDDING... ESPECIALLY ON HARRY PORTER!|||no
no all religions are not stories
yes there is factual evidence jesus and muhammad were real people|||Lol, yo religion is just passed on nonsense but I do in fact believe Jesus existed but nothing special about him.|||OH? Superman isn't real?
Then who would win in a fight between Superman and Mighty Mouse?
Exactly!|||Superman is proven to be fictitious mate.|||Religion is a blind corrupted old government.|||i dunno about all of the spiritual stuff, but jesus himself was real, theres biological proof.|||Please check out the Evidence That Demands a Verdict.by Josh McDowell. I have not the time to answer this sufficiently.|||Let's see Jesus outrun a speeding bullet.|||Mo was a real dude, probably was some bloke called Jesus, doesn't mean they were right.|||NO, JESUS IS REAL AND SUPERMAN ISN'T!|||I saw superman fly across the sky on my TV set just the other day! He MUST be real - scientific evidence of vision!
WHAT? That's not true evidence? Well, guess what. Jesus IS real, and whether YOU "see" Him or not, doesn't change the facts; in the same way that just because I saw "superman" flying across my TV screen, that does not prove that superman really exists.
But, do you ever see anybody trying to disprove the existence of superman? (I'm not the only one who has seen film of superman flying across the sky).
The only reason people don't try to disprove the existence of superman is because we understand that superman isn't actually a real person. (Pscyhology 101 - you don't try to disprove the non-existent).
So, with you trying so hard to disprove the existence of God and Jesus, or at least to discredit His existence, that should tell you something.
If you KNOW something doesn't exist, you don't bother, therefore I can only conclude that because you ARE trying to disprove/discredit the existence of God/Jesus, that this means that you are NOT fully convinced that He doesn't exist! (If you WERE fully convinced, you wouldn't bother with it, just as people are fully convinced that superman doesn't exist, so they don't bother with it.)
It is your opinion that "religions are stories" - PROVE it, if you claim it!
By the way, based on your misbegoten notion of history, there is also no evidence that your great grandmother's great grandmother ever existed!
Honest historians admit that Jesus lived. They may not agree that he is the son of God, but HONEST historians do not question his existence in history! What YOU are doing is called "intellectual suicide", denying reality to support your opinions!
A person who demonstrates to a doctor that he denies reality, "he'd be categorized as mentally ill."
In the words of William Shakespeare, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”|||no, far from it
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