At first, I wondered if the Op was pure sarcasm. Maybe not. Forgive me, but I’m slow. I think best of religious leaders, East and West, have concluded that God is a way, not a person.
not really…if you believe in jesus as god …you behave much differently than if you believe jesus was a guy…the bible says two ways…and the bible was written by guys
Not really. It was Jesus the man God who came up with the Sermon on the Mount. It was Confucious who came up with, among others, the Golden Rule. These are not the average philosphies of the man on the street.
Well, maybe you can separate the two, but if you hold them both as one, as both human and divine, I would say that that would be a mighty beacon to be guided by. Here you have your god and here you have a human, who was just as human as you. The human part one can identify with more being that you are human more so than the divine part.
I didn’t separate the two…they did that at the council of nicea in 325 ad…the split is still in the church…I see it in my church with my own little turtle eyes…
That is only partially true.
There were and are also some indivisuals, to whom it was/is not a matter of mere belief, but hard personal evidence.
This minority was considerd as an authority in the past. That is from where other gather their belief.
Having said that, still there is a possibility of the presence of some cons there in that elite group.
One suspects s/he is talking about personal anecdotes. The kind where someone is convinced they had a particular experience but does not have the “hard evidence” to convince everyone else.
Go through it. Now, suppose just for the sake of an argument that i am not lying, what should i believe; what others say or what i personally experienced?