On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Christopher B Wright wrote:
> Nik Taylor saakel:
> > No, third possibility: His followers exaggerated Jesus' nature and made
> > up his claims to be the Son of God. I'm fairly sure that's what
> Muslims
> > believe.
>
> Then why did His followers die for their beliefs? (Puzzled frown.) People
> don't die for what they know to be a lie. (It was documented by the
> Romans that eleven of the twelve apostles were brutally martyred.)
Christians are always saying this. I wonder if they believe it.
People are perverse creatures and will die for the silliest things. An
appeal to some kind of "human nature" is about the weakest lukewarm
argument one could find. Even God spits the lukewarm out of his mouth.
> The Gospels were written within (about) forty years of Jesus' death
> (which is a matter of Roman record) by those who saw what happened.
> Either they wrote the truth, or they got together and wrote a bunch of
> lies and then died to defend those lies. (Many things in the Gospels are
> shared between them.)
And many things are not.
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