There were 200 Million People in the "Jesus World"



I recall hearing preachers say from pulpits, "This (Bible Story) is based on historical facts." That sentence is beaten into seminary students who then repeat it to their flocks. When Christian apologists publish their stuff they repeat it as well. Now, when I've challenged clergy and others about talking snakes, walking on water and gazillions of long dead skeletons marching out of their graves when "Jesus was crucified," some will admit those parts may not be "historical facts" but the parts they like in the Bible are. 

Apologists often instruct believers on how to argue with skeptics and atheists. Ones such as the link say, "Remember, Jesus said 'I am the one.'" We're supposed to believe that when someone, Joeseph Smith or Jesus, claim they have private information God made them into holy men? Not in today's world, bro. We have meters watching for con messages that ring alarms at stuff like that.

Christians who want to convert the world would do well to reflect on how the stories in the Bible sound to outsiders. Liberal denominations, of course, go lite on such stories. It seems like the faith would be helped by a more aggressive denial of miracles and fanaticizes. I've seen so many time deep Christians write that it may be possible to let some doubt in about various things in the Bible. But, they say, Christians cannot bend on Jesus coming back to life after being dead. It seems to me that is the very thing the faith should drop. 

In the end, 200 million people and not one that wrote about first-hand experience with Jesus sends the whole deal down the drain.  


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