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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago
[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 19 hours ago

If Jesus is God and god is omniscient, he knows. If god is omnipotent, he can.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

He’s been hanging on rear view mirrors long enough, I’m sure he’s figured it out by now.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago

By that metric, you'd have better luck asking a pine tree to be your chauffeur

..is a brand new sentence for sure 😄

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For a brief time, with cross on his back, Jesus Christ was Carrie Underwood.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not everyone knows how to do everything

True. Even if he DID exist and WAS a god, he couldn't possibly be omnipotent unless he was not omniscient, not benevolent, or neither 🤷🏻

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But He is God, and is supposed to be omniscient.

[–] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago

Nope. The so-called historical sources are all Romans, Christians, and Roman Christians. No physical evidence, of course

In other words, the whole "Jesus objectively existed" is based solely on the testimony of people with a vested interest in his claiming he existed, none of whom were even alive at the time he supposedly was.

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Which Jesus are we talking about? The Nazirite preacher who developed a cult following, or the Son of God who cured lepers with his touch and resurrected dead people?

One of these things is plausible, but not provable beyond all reasonable doubt. The other is just magic and shit.

So I'm wondering where your absolute, rock-solid conviction on this matter is coming from.

[–] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

Shit-tier Socrates, that is who I am talking about. Just another human executed for speaking out.

The difference is that one of these figures avoided unjustified assertions. Both likely existed.

[–] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

Shit-tier Socrates, that is who I am talking about. Just another guy executed for speaking out.

The difference is that one of these guys never made unjustified assumptions.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago

And it totally makes sense that there would be such a guy, probably a grifter, manipulator, sociopath, who would develop such a cult.

Because the alternative is that some group in power conspired to spin this story and astroturf the movement. So that would have to be either the Jews or the Romans. But it doesn’t benefit either of them to do that.

[–] human@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 day ago

That guy yells