• @[email protected]
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        177 months ago

        True, it’s just a little too magical for my brain to process. To me he was a prophet and probably a good dude… but that’s probably about it.

        To worship a guy as a literal God because his mom had a tale to tell about why she was pregnant, was the beginning of the end of religion making sense for me.

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          To me he was a prophet and probably a good dude… but that’s probably about it.

          And you have stumbled upon the big difference between Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

          Jews already had a list of criteria for the messiah. Jesus didn’t check all of the boxes, so the Jews went “he’s not our messiah. We’ll keep waiting for the real one to show up.”

          Christians believe he is the messiah; Literally God given flesh, so He can experience mortality and die for their sins.

          Then the Muslims believe he was a prophet, but not the last prophet. They believe the last prophet was Muhammad. Jesus is featured pretty heavily in the Quran, because they do believe he was a prophet. But Muhammad said there would be no more prophets after himself, so anyone new claiming to be one is lying. (Worth noting that this “no new prophets” thing doesn’t negate Jesus’ second coming. Because Jesus wouldn’t be a new prophet, he would be a returning prophet.)

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            57 months ago

            Muhammad out here gatekeeping prophets, it nice Muhammad. I think anyone can be whatever they want to, so long as they try hard.

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              47 months ago

              I mean, the Bible also discusses an anti-Christ as well. Jesus preached that there would be false prophets.

              Almost as if starting a cult requires your followers to actively reject other belief systems.

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            And then came Báb and Baháʼí was born.

            It’s turtles all the way down.

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          37 months ago

          if he existed, he sounds like he was cool.

          show me some real historical documents suggesting he did, tho.

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            It doesn’t matter much if there was a “real” Jesus, because the Jesus Christians worship is not him. The Jesus Christians worship is a magical son of a god that defies death.

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              okay yeah that guy didn’t exist, but the George Washington Americans worship couldn’t tell a lie and did manual labor one time and was a good general and his teeth were stupid instead of nightmare fuel

              and we consider them the same guy.

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                  okay yeah maybe morally, but counterpoint:

                  thinking about it here: darker and edgier tooth fairy turned warlord does sound metal as fuck.

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      Literally is, at least according to trinitarian doctrine. Handy diagram:

      Which of course implies that “isness” is non-transitive which mathematically speaking is bonkers. I mean it’s not that you can’t have intransitive relations but calling them equivalences is going to raise eyebrows.

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        “Isness” definitely doesn’t need to be transitive.

        It can be used to give properties to a subject. An apple is crisp, red, and 100g. Crisp isn’t red, red isn’t 100g, and 100g isn’t crisp.

        It can also be used to specify a general case. Honeycrisp is an apple. Golden Delicious is an apple. Fuji is an apple. All three of Honeycrisp, Fuji and Golden Delicious are distinct.

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          An apple is crisp, red, and 100g. Crisp isn’t red, red isn’t 100g, and 100g isn’t crisp.

          True, but then crisp isn’t apple, red isn’t apple, and 100g isn’t apple: All your examples have the property that if x is y, then y isn’t x, which means it’s an asymmetric relation, while in the trinity there’s symmetry: The father is god, god is the father.

          Honeycrisp is an apple. Golden Delicious is an apple. Fuji is an apple

          We can go further and say that apples are fruit, and that Honeycrisp are fruit. That is transitive.

          What you’re describing is a strict partial order, which is not an equivalence, but the whole thing being some sort of equivalence is kinda important if Trinitarians want to be monotheists. Equivalences need to be reflexive, symmetric and transitive, at least if you ask mathematicians.

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      It is just one uppmanship. He didn’t start out being thought that way but people kept adding. Whole process took over two centuries

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        Some Gnostics went pretty quickly down the road of “he’s the real god, here to expose the demiurge (Yahweh, formerly known as Ba’al, according to them… But not according to Canaanite religion)”

        Supposedly. I think a lot of scholars are in the process of reexamining what the Gnostics actually believed.

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      Have you been to one of his churches? Tried one of those wafers they say is him? He tastes awful.

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      Never met him. Read his stories, can’t say I care for any of the servitude required, and his followers are the worst humans you’ll run into around here.

      No, thank you.

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      I hate him in the sense I hate any fictional character.

      Don’t think he was really fleshed out, didn’t see the point in the larger narrative, and he has the worst fanbase. Even Rick and Morty has a better behaved fandom.

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      I can’t say I like him much:

      Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

      John 3:18

      In other words, if you aren’t a Christian (which most people in history and alive today are not), you go straight to hell.

      The “Prince of Peace” was all about kindness because your sinful ass would get tortured forever, so you might as well have a few nice years here.