Why Did Jesus Not Write Anything ?

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  JamesThomas

  Sounding like an arrogant ass, I'll say that it is sadly amusing to watch people as they feebly but sincerely attempt to support their cherished little son of a murderous tribal god, as being somehow real and in some way responsible for the existence of a wondrous and infinite universe.

  As they say: if tricycles worshipped a god, it would have three wheels.

  I pray for the day people get their heads out of the dense muck of "holy" scriptures, and enter into the reality of the present moment, that they realize a truly unending and unimaginable sense of the Divine.

  j
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  kristyann

  skyking, those religions do not have even close to as many followers as Christianity. Besides, I didn't say that this meant that Christianity is correct (though I do think it is). I was just merely pointing out that yes, many, MANY people did talk about these miracles. James, what are you so angry about? And who are you praying to?
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  done4good

  I agree that the speed of acceptance, (if you want to call it that), doesen't mean anything in itself. But a study of just how different the Roman world was, as opposed to Christian philosphy, is quite stark. Why did the people choose to believe this? Could it have been because much of the basic philosophy, (outside of the "miracles", resurrection, etc), actually made some sense to these people? I dunno. But just because certain emperical evidence dosen't appear to exist, in support of a living "Jesus", dosen't disqualify the fact that something significant happend during this time. What was that? If anyone knows, I like to hear it. (No challenge here, just looking for information).

  j
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  zeroday

  I can remember a class exercise in the 6th grade. In a class of 40 students the teacher started at the beginning of one row and told the first student something. The student was then to turn around and wisper exactly what the teacher told him to the next student. And so on it went around the entire class. The last student was to tell the teacher what he heard and to no one's suprise it was nothing like the original message the teacher started. Now multiply that over 2000 years and what do you think you will get.
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  Bstndance

  Regardless of his existence, there were many accounts of the story of Jesus written by many people. Unfortunately, when the "church" started to put the Bible together, many of these accounts were left out for various reasons including the ever so popular "I doesn't go well with the rest of the Church's teachings".
  The Gospel of St. Thomas, is the one that they were basing the movie Stigmata on. It wasn't written by Jesus as the movie stated. I believe it wasn't discovered until the 19th century but deemed heretical because the teachings contained were too mystical and didn't work well for the church.
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  Bstndance

  "Now multiply that over 2000 years and what do you think you will get."
  
  I'm not a religious person. But a teacher making a statement like that is the about the same as teaching religion in the classroom. Although I agree with the statement, it doesn't belong in school.
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  zeroday

  But a teacher making a statement like that is the about the same as teaching religion in the classroom

  It was a Catholic School....
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  Madame Quixote

  I wonder if Jesus of the Bible might have been illiterate?

  KristyAnn wrote: Someone wrote "Many times Jesus's miracles as recorded in the bible are followed by the words, "and the people were amazed". Why didn't any of those amazed people record or speak to others about those events so that they could record them? Something's a little fishy about the whole thing." But TONS of people DID speak to others about those events! That's why Jesus had so many followers. Tons of people were telling their families and friends and strangers and plenty of other people. And look how quickly the Christian church sprang up. There were definitely more than a few people telling others about these miracles. Actually, the Christian Church did not spring of quickly; it went through a number of fits and starts and nearly sputtered out of existence, had it not been for the conversions of Constantine, etc.. The "amazed people" who might have thought they witnessed something amazing were probably amazingly illiterate, too. TONS of people talk about Naruto, too; that doesn't make him real.
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  wozadummy

  Madame

  Jesus read the scriptures and was literate according to the bible for he read it and then applied the scripture to himself.

  I 've always understood the Jews to be a very literate people back then which does lead one to ask the topic question.

  Perhaps it is because it is a religion built upon faith in unseen things ,and how we respond to the teachings verbally given to us and the bible is a back up of these teachings. The argument could be made that the telling of teachings is unreliable due to them easily being corrupted, but that can be said too of the written word otherwise every one claiming to be christian would believe the same thing , but they don't.
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  abbagail

  Uninformed wrote: "Jesus sure did not establish the basis for a huge printing organization did he?"
  
  LOL, that is priceless! Crack me up!
  
  /ag