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originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: FlyInTheOintment
Biden won't sign it, he hates Israel.
originally posted by: grey580
You mean that I won't have to wake up to crazy people knocking on my door on a Saturday trying to shove Religion down my throat?
originally posted by: TzarChasm
a reply to: FlyInTheOintment
Idk man, does it really matter who killed him? How he died isn't the message. And if it mattered, if it really absolutely mattered, then where the hell is Jesus? The way I see it as a plebeian heathen unbeliever, if it isn't serious enough for the man to present himself and declare his judgment, then it's not serious.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
originally posted by: TzarChasm
a reply to: FlyInTheOintment
Idk man, does it really matter who killed him? How he died isn't the message. And if it mattered, if it really absolutely mattered, then where the hell is Jesus? The way I see it as a plebeian heathen unbeliever, if it isn't serious enough for the man to present himself and declare his judgment, then it's not serious.
True.
Jesus died for our sins.
The Romans and Jews didn't kill him for our sins.
A very clear distinction.
*tips hat*
www.google.com... CCLACAQ&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#ip=1
Ishmael was the first son of Abraham, the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, through his wife Sara's handmaiden Hagar (Genesis 16:3). According to the Genesis account, he died at the age of 137 (Genesis 25:17). According to biblical tradition, he is the ancestor of the Arabs.
en.wikipedia.org...#:~:text=Ishmael%20was%20the%20first%20son,the%20ancestor%20of%20the%20Arabs.
Islam
See also: Ishmael in Islam
Ishmael (Arabic:إسماعيل Ismāʿīl) is recognized as an important prophet of Islam. Like Christians and Jews, Muslims believe that Ishmael was the firstborn of Abraham, born to him from his wife Hagar.[42] Ishmael is recognized by Muslims as the ancestor of several northern prominent Arab tribes and the forefather of Adnan, the ancestor of Muhammad.[43] Muslims also believe that Muhammad was the descendant of Ishmael who would establish a great nation.
originally posted by: EnzoTrent
a reply to: charlest2
You do realize that Jesus Christ was literally an Arab?
Like, fr - he could only have been a brown person - were he born white, like the paintings - it would be like a Chinese couple in the middle of a Chinese city giving birth to a white European looking baby, it'd make the news
If he really was white - I can only think of Robin William's "Oh it better have been immaculate Mary" bit and tbh I have a hard time believing Joe could have been cool with that back in the day - unless he was gay bc before the 3 Wise Men showed up, how could he possibly have believed Mary? At the time, God only spoke with priests after you killed an animal in specific to get his attention - in a pre-Christian world, its just outright unbelievable and coupled with the fact that adultery carried a punishment of being stoned to death, I'll bet it was pretty common for people to say anything at all to try to avoid that.
My favorite part of this particular "what if" is the fact that in some oldest artwork, in some of the oldest Churches in Orthodox Christianity (the super strict one that likes to believe it has never changed) Jesus is literally depicted Black, like the same Black the 3 Wisemen are often depicted.
If 3 Kings showed up bearing incredibly expensive gifts for "my son" that happens to look like them - with some crazy story about following a star, I would immediately assume that my wife slept with one of them and he came to visit his son.
How could you not believe that?
Not one person had spoken to Joe about "faith" - that wasn't a thing yet
I'm assuming Jesus looked exactly like his parents considering he spent time with "the Church elders" who apparently took a 12 year old seriously, I can't see that happening if his parentage were actually in question. Being a bastard was a whole thing back then.
Aside from all of that. Jesus is the Son of the guy who made everything everywhere... I think I'd blame Dad for creating such a world before I'd blame the innocent people in it and he speaks like that when he refers to us as sheep and "they kno not what they do" - he also takes upon himself all of our collective sins and forgives us of them, bc its not our fault and he knows whose fault it is.
If I make a game for children (another one of Jesus's goto descriptions of adult people he encounters) and inside that game the children can rape and kill each other, and I very clearly allowed for that to be possible by creating the game that way, I'd prolly go to prison.
originally posted by: Station27
originally posted by: grey580
You mean that I won't have to wake up to crazy people knocking on my door on a Saturday trying to shove Religion down my throat?
So you're against people having the right to say something you don't agree with? Do you know what a "slippery slope" is?
originally posted by: EnzoTrent
If Christ were to return today, there is 0% chance that he ever sets foot in a "Christian Church" bc they are some of the least Christian people alive at the moment. Not only would they not recognize him, he wouldn't recognize them either.