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This is nothing new, but for whatever reason I spent a little time thinking about what I would have to believe in order to NOT believe the bible. It's funny how evidence seems to have stacked up on the other side of my proverbial wall in the years since I've become a Christian.
In any case, if you don't believe the bible, I have concluded that you must either believe that the entire thing is a complete falsification made several hundred years after the death of Christ.... in which case I urge you to watch the Discovery channel a little more discerningly. Or, you are forced to agree with the following statements:
- Jesus was either insane or a liar bent on misery
- Jesus was an amazing magician and unparalleled psychological manipulator to pull off so many supposed miracles
- Jesus' disciples were murdered, tortured, and otherwise persecuted to protect an elaborate lie from which they had nothing to gain personally
- It is a complete coincidence that Jesus fulfills 48 OT prophesies
- It is a complete coincidence that the bible alluded to many of the more profound scientific conclusions long before the science existed to prove them
- All accounts of Jesus miracles where blatant falsehoods and apparitions.
- People that were alive in the times during Jesus life and immediately following His death believed everything that you are choosing not to, but you, 2000 years removed from the events, know better.
I'll be praying for you.
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