The Bible

Originally posted by mr.smiley
I don't realy belive in a historical Christ.I think it's a story to show us all that we can become a Christ.The bible has some many things within it that come from mythical origens rather than historical.Most people take it literaly though.

Yeah.If you study history and I don't mean the history the church gives us,but from other sources we see a very different picture of Christ.When we read the true letters of Paul we see a very different man than what the church gave us.

Paul use to be a Pharisee and he was taught by the greatest Jewish teacher of all time and he was the most intelligent of the apostles.

what backs up this most intelligent of the apostles claim

Like i've stated before,in his letters (authentic letters) he never mentions Christ in a historical context.He does mention a historical John though.He never says he met Christ,but a being of light.He also tells us the secret is Christ is within you.The Church gives us completly different picture of Paul than his actual letters do.

Paul does encounter Christ in acts, when he was going to Damascus to persecute the Christians.

Like I said the Bible paints a very different picture of Paul than his actual letters do.

Not to mention when Paul describes his vision of Jesus on the road to Damascus you must take notice that Paul never says God revealed his son to me.Paul says "God revealed his son in me".You can see that Paul isn't speaking of Christ in a literal or historic sense.

Originally posted by cking
Paul does encounter Christ in acts, when he was going to Damascus to persecute the Christians.

Too bad there weren't any witnesses to that donkey conversation...anythings possible.....

actually in exodus balaam had an encounter with an angel and and he made a donkey talk and wouldn't let him pass on the road. balaam cursed the Israelite instead of blessing them when going through Canaan.

The angel is also depicted as a Satan.

where did it say that?

They talk about it in the origen of Satan by elain Pagels.He curses at the donkey right?

yes he does and he hits him also.

Yeah it's the same story.

after the story, he changed and went back to give blessings to Israel. Jesus did mention his name in either revelations or the gospels.

i do not believe the bible is fact, i believe it to be a lot of stories made up.

Its just like mythology, but people don´t say that because christianism is still alive today.

Originally posted by cking
after the story, he changed and went back to give blessings to Israel. Jesus did mention his name in either revelations or the gospels.

IN later gospels,but Paul never mentions Christ as a historical figure.

no one ever did.