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Originally Posted by Janszoon
So if Mormonism or Scientology are major world religions two thousand years from now that means they're true?
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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre
Janszoon has it right here, but even if your claim were addressed at face value, Jesus is simply the last in a line of many. If popularity implies Jesus is believable to the point of assuming he was telling the truth, why then were the previous incarnations of his story NOT the truth?
Answer: None of them are telling the truth. Jesus is perhaps slightly more convincing than his forebears but his story is the same as theirs to a remarkable and suspect degree, leading me to believe he is simply retelling an old tale. Think of Stephen Fry reading a Harry Potter book vs A drunkard doing it. One is clearly far more convincing and charismatic, but neither of them is telling the truth.
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i can't say much for Mormonism, i still say it's up for debate whether Joseph Smith Jr. really did receive the message from God, and the Book of Mormons has as much fallacies as the Bible so I can't vouch for its truth and veracity
all i'm saying that all the Christians I know feel they were touched by something that led them to believe, and so did I - you just have to feel it yourself - i don't think any amount of charisma by a charlatan can do that - and neither is just reading the book and believing it at face value enough to convince anybody about Jesus
Scientology is pretty telling from how they treat the non-celebrity folowers from the followers, so it's pretty much a fad
and don't get me wrong either, i'm here for a healthy debate, Gnostic Christians are more interested in knowledge than blind belief