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I would say you started out with a faulty premise... That Christianity only existed because Jesus rose from the dead.
Because clearly telling people to love their neighbors and treat people the way they want to be treated only has resonance if a Zombie tells you to do it. Apparently.
When in fact, it's quite the reverse. If Jesus existed at all, the miracles, including the resurrection, were tall tales that got bigger with each telling.
The thing about the New Testament is that it isn't arranged in the order it was written. The first books that were written were the epistles, which don't talk about the resurrection, the virgin birth, or the miracles.
Then you had the Gospel of Mark, which is actually kind of laid back, and in it's original form, only had an empty tomb, no resurrected Jesus.
The Gospels of Matthew and Luke came next, both of which were heavily borrowing from Mark, but the miracles come fast and furious.
Finally, you have the Gospel of John, written last, with a lot of the supernatural stuff in it, like Doubting Thomas and such.
So the question should be, "Would Christianity exist if Jesus didn't rise from the dead" and should be "Why did the people who created Christianity need a resurrection to sell their story?"
That Jesus myth lie has been debunked six ways from Sunday. But even though it's been debunked, every few years atheists and anti-Christians try again to throw that against the wall to see if it will stick. I'm sorry but no historian worth his salt denies that Jesus was an actual person who walked this earth. There are numerous historical sources, outside the bible.
Because he died in order to redeem us from judgement which would be complete and utter death or hell.
Think back to Noah. No Savior there except for God's hand of saving 8 people to repopulate the earth. Noah...the last righteous man on earth. How does the bible describe the world before the flood and why did God judge the earth with the flood?
My opinion: Not so you would want to be here. There would be no victory over the grave. No eternal life with Christ. Everyone would face judgement and damnation. There would be hell on earth such as in south africa without any of the good stuff. There would be killing and war, fire and death, horrific treatment of women and children...and men for that matter. Life would be worthless. Life would be ugly and short. That is the worst.
The best would be that mankind would have destroyed itself and the earth before now.
Without getting into the whole explanation of why the Flood is a myth, I want you to think about it literally.
The purpose of the Flood was to destroy evil in mankind, God kills nearly everyone on earth and all the animals to boot, and he still doesn't manage to prevent evil.
It seems most of the world gets on just fine without Jesus.
do they.
For those who don't believe in Jesus or the fact that He rose from the dead, then what are you doing in this thread? I'm sure that WillHaftawaite would ask you exactly the same thing.
WHERE is the proof that Noah was ever a real person?Because he died in order to redeem us from judgement which would be complete and utter death or hell.
Think back to Noah. No Savior there except for God's hand of saving 8 people to repopulate the earth. Noah...the last righteous man on earth. How does the bible describe the world before the flood and why did God judge the earth with the flood?
Certainly not. That's the way the Da Vinci Code would have it.Would Christianity still exist? (Thank the Lord He did btw.) I know it's kind of late after Easter to be asking this question, I'm just curious.
Religion is based on belief, not proof. I would not expect proof when debating theology. In fact, I don't debate the tenets of any theology, just the human actions that may arise from it.Personally..............I like debating theology.
Mainly because so far in my adult life of debating theology, NOT ONE PERSON HAS EVER GIVEN ME ANY ROCK SOLID PROOF of anything they've said.
ANYBODY can write words on paper. A N Y B O D Y.
But it takes a gullible fool to believe what was written, without demanding proof of facts.
What if the Easter Bunny didn't lay eggs?
WHERE is the proof that Noah was ever a real person?
WHERE is the proof that "the flood" ever happened?
WHERE is the proof that this god exists?
So far, there is none.
I only asked the OP question because would Jesus still be remembered if He didn't rise from the dead, or would He just be another man who died on the cross and forgotten about?
Frankly, there are just as many affluent places in the Non-Christian world as the Christian world... and there are just as many poor and miserable places in the Christian World
The question of what if the story about the Rising of Christ didn’t happen is a good question and would Christianity exist?
Yes, because the fact is the stories about Jesus of Nazareth were created ( in my opinion ) to make Jesus equal to a Roman Emperor seeing Roman Emperors were consider divine and a mortal like Jesus could not be above a Emperor.
