> No it's not. > > Jesus wasn't a normal "person": he performed all kinds a miracles and > then resurrected himself.
You're totally missing the point. It's not just the nature of Jesus, but the fact that he did live that is part of Christianity. Put another way....if he never existed, then Christianity as a religion totally falls apart. > You either believe or you don't. If you're looking for verification > of those events then you doubt that Jesus existed and/or that he was > a supernatural creature. Again, you are making assumptions about what people are doing when they look for verification of Biblical events. They aren't verifying a supernatural origin or "proving" God exists (some might say they are but not typically). They are seeking to disprove those that say the Bible must be total fiction because nothing in it ever happened. Will anyone ever prove a supernatural basis for specific events? Of course not....as I've already said, science is not capable of doing that. Someone else says that "Jesus did promise that those who believed could do the same works that he did". Nope, he never said any such thing. God chooses who he gives such gifts to, and such gifts vary from person to person in their nature. "My understanding of that is that you have to believe first, not use the signs as evidence before you commit." Again, not the teaching of the bible. Blind faith is *not* something we are expected to have... that is just a recent fundamentalist position. The New Testament quite clearly illustrates people believing *because* of evidence, not in the absence of it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:308395 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
