JWs and blood

Originally posted by angusmcfangledang: ↑

"Perhaps the new language was a language of spirit. Christians seem to forget just how few people even knew Jesus existed in His own lifetime, or how slowly Christianity grew."

Wafflehead,no offence,but why do you suppose your thoughts are other people's thoughts?

It seems that projecting your own thoughts onto others to justify a position is the norm in here?

You dont know what others are thinking,dont pretend you do.

I think about it often how little people knew of Jesus in his day,he was to alot of people just another claim,just another freak show.
No different to probably his position in secular society today,he's not a big issue

"Had there been literal physical miracles and Disciples who could instantly speak new languages one might have expected Jesus to be known and the religion to have spread quickly."

And that was the case,this is why the jews and Romans used the law to try and curb this belief,and it grew like wildfire.
Judeo/Christianity is the basis to western law and culture,certainly won't be for much longer withglobalisation/humanism changing culture and belief in the western countries to fit their coming world government

"They learnt to speak a new spiritual truth, not a new language."

They spoke new languages,a miracle of God witnessed by thousands,no matter how much you try to spiritualise the meaning away

The story of Jesus is completely different to Krishna,Muhammad etc etc,the new ages try to marry the stories together such do the bahais to say that all roads lead to heaven ,you just choose your own road

Jesus said I am the truth and the life,no man might come to God but through me

The bible teaching and the Christian beliefs are in Total contrast to what you are trying to make them mean

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Wafflehead,no offence,but why do you suppose your thoughts are other people's thoughts?

It seems that projecting your own thoughts onto others to justify a position is the norm in here?

It is, that's how debating a point of view works I believe.

You don't know what others are thinking, don't pretend you do.

That's true and half the time I don't even understand what they are trying to say, but pretending I know is a strange comment. Is this to do with Mr Gordon or the Bible? If it's the Bible then the whole of Christendom pretends they know what the Bible means. Why pick on me?

As for Jesus, He is a huge issue. He conquered the world. He guided a group of simple souls in a distant land to teacher and produce the most populous religion the world has ever seen. Jesus was a Manifestation of God.

Christianity did not grow like wildfire in the early decades. Jesus came to enrich the spiritual life of humanity, He did not come to perform circus tricks for a select few. Think about it, to make a spiritually blind person see the light is an eternal miracle. To make a physically blind person see was good for a couple of decades. I have no idea why Christians do not understand the spiritual implications of Jesus who said His kingdom was not of this world.

Regarding Jesus and this new age stuff. That is not the problem. The problem is that Christianity ended up in the hands of imperial nations who weaponised Christianity and made the claim that God was so grossly unjust that He poured Himself into one small race and one small belief and left the rest of the world to rot. Seriously, how in God's name can a religious person believe such rot about God?

Every Prophet said they were the truth and that no man would come to God but through them. You see God was and is universal. He is not captive to Christianity.

Reality was the same in the age of Jesus as it is today. People did not spontaneously know a new language. The dead do not rise. The blind do not see. The deaf do not hear, unless some special medical intervention assist them.

Religious reality is ordinary reality, if you struggle with reality as is the case with the majority of fundamentally religious people, then don;t blame me, the problem is yours to solve and good luck to you.