[QUOTE="Frattracide"][QUOTE="battlefront23"]1. What about Buddah? He lived almost 500 years before Jesus and made similar claims. Like what? And was he as impactful as Jesus
2. Rabbits do not chew their cud Lev (11-16.) (I have more if you want them) More. Not everything is menat literally btw. Also due to micro-evoltion, rabbits behavior traits may have changed since Leviticus was written.
3. The author describes a "circle" not a sphere. You used that vagueness to interpret the passage as being scientifically accurate. In other parts of Job, the earth is interpreted as being flat with a dome or vault over it and resting on pillars. I'm sure you would interpret that as a metaphor though. What's the reference?
4.Consider the suicide bomber or the other examples of martyrdom in countless other religions and sects. Doespeople'swillingness to die for their religions make them all true? You should also consider Galileoand, to a lesser extent, Copernicus. They were both persecuted for making claims about the nature of the solar system. They both chose to recant. Does the fact that Galileo chose to repent from his "evil deeds" change the nature of the solar system? Ah but that's different; they are dying for a cause. The disciples died for a person. (Who had causes but I hope you understand what I mean.)
5. It doesn't matter. If I made a claim about any being loving me, I would first have to prove that being existed. That Jesus existed on the earth?
6. I'm not using a list format to be sarcastic or snarky in any way. (I've noticed people do that on these boards.) I'm only listing everything to keep track of the points you made. It's cool. I tend to get sacastic and snarky comments from just about every Atheist on this site. :|
BTW I'm gonna go do my laundry so if I don't post in a while, you will know why.
God Bless. :)
battlefront23
1. I meant he preached tolerance towards his enemies. And it could be argued his impact was as great a Jesus, yes.
Now there's no way his impact was as great as Jesus'. Either way, people in Europe wouldn't have known about BUddha's beliefs yet. (I think, right?)
2. I am not familiar with any evidence that shows that kind of trait change in rabbits. Even if there isn't any, I don't think that passage is literal.
3. ISA 40:22 and I Sam 2-8. I thought they were in Job. My Bible says circle. (Isaiah) Circles are very similar anyway. But that didn't say the earth was flat. :| And the passage in Samuel is not meant to be literal and I don't know why anyone thought God meant that literally.
4. It is not any different. They are both dying for a cause, which is to spread their religion. Yes and no. They did die for their religion partially because of ther cause, but mainly because of Jesus's death for them.
5. That Jesus is a supernatural being that created the world. He rose from the dead.Only soemthing supernatural could have risen from the dead.
So Budha wasn't big in Europe hence he is smaller than Jesus :roll: ok look east mate, there isa continent called asia. Most people live there. A lot of Asians are Budhist of some kind. The religion greatly influences over a billion lives and spreads the message of inner-peace all without any need for a god or violence in which to commit in god's name.
Oh yes there is an influence, and it has caused far less bloodshed than Jesus (not his real name btw but call him what you want its irrelevant - more murders were caused in his name than any other)
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