there are some people who actually believe that the book called MIDRASH is
No dummy. The disciples said they knew that Jesus was "The Holy one OF God", not God.The prophet like Moses who would speak the words that God puts in his mouth to convey all his commands. Jesus told them God tells him what to say and how to say it which means that Jesus did not think of himself as or claim to be God.
Every eyewitness account of seeing Jesus after the crucifixion was an eyewitness account of what was seen and heard in dreams, the only realm where the described encounters could possibly be true eyewitness accounts.
Seriously? Hobelim said the miracles were not supernatural. Hobelim said Jesus was put to death for sedition.
I don't think ding ever got over the fact, recorded in over 24 thousand books, that the big bad wolf ate grandma.
As soon as you heard that a crafty talking serpent was introduce in Genesis you should have known the answer. Even if you were a child. At least where I come from no one over the age of three believed that animals can talk.
That is true. Right now, millions of kids are watching cartoons with talking cats and dogs saying good things, and they understand that cartoons are not real life at a very young age. Whoever wrote some of the Old Testament (We have no clue as to who they were) wanted to make up some fanciful stories to suggest that humans were created by some master puppeteer who was like Santa Claus and rewarded good behavior and punished bad behavior.
The word miracle has taken on a supernatural aspect ever since Rome assimilated and perverted scripture.
When a child is hungry you give them something good to eat, not a bowl of crap. When a child asks about the world outside the home they are given fairy tales, to teach them hard learned lessons of the distant past.
Yes if a person takes the stories in scripture literally they are more likely to believe anything ridiculous and become easy prey for every sort of foul and loathsome beast and bird on earth, like those who were conned into "believing" that trump was going to save democracy from communism with fascism. derp. Such is the power of what the ancients called sorcery, the magical arts, what is now well known as brainwashing or mind control.
That why I think children who haven't learned anything about the sciences, history, or literature, etc., should be shielded from religious indoctrination as it can be and is harmful, detrimental, even lethal, to the developing mind.
The Babylonian talmud was completed in the 6th century CE. So there's that. You might as well be writing about Vlad III Tepes of Wallachia now without knowing anything about him but legends rumors, and misinformation.
I agree with all of your post other than the part about Trump. No one I know of ever suggested Trump would save them from anything except the fascist and Marxist Democrats like Biden and Kamala who imported 10 million illegals and shipped them into the states they need more seats in for the elections, and against the deep state who set him up for Russian Collusion, two impeachments and then lawfare to destroy him for the 2024 election.
You should have applied your mind to understand the lessons taught in story of A&E and the the talking serpent.
Not visions. Miracles.
When do you believe Jesus was first worshipped as God and why?
When do you believe Jesus was first worshipped as God and why?
Do you have any evidence for that? When was Jesus first worshipped as God and why?
And recorded history. Specifically that Jesus was put to death for sorcery and leading Israel to apostasy just like the 24,000 written manuscripts say.
So you say. What were they being persecuted for?
