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@dj2becker saidpolite nudge for divegeester
So how do you differentiate between good and evil then?
@dj2becker saidpolite nudge for divegeester
So how do you differentiate between good and evil then?
I think what you mean this is that 'epitomizing the highest standard of human morality' is how Jesus has been portrayed by the people who carefully constructed a cult of personality around him in the decades and centuries after he was executed by the Romans for sedition.
@sonship saidWe have discussed this before. My perspective ~ and the reasons for it ~ has not changed.
@FMF
I think what you mean this is that 'epitomizing the highest standard of human morality' is how Jesus has been portrayed by the people who carefully constructed a cult of personality around him in the decades and centuries after he was executed by the Romans for sedition.
Whoever are the imaginative people who invented Jesus and fictionalized words ...[text shortened]... y as best you could the inserted fictionalized quotations made up by these hijackers of the Gospel ?
We have discussed this before. My perspective ~ and the reasons for it ~ has not changed.
Our moral compasses are there to help us navigate our way through all this limitation and untrustworthy stuff.
This is why it's all in the realm of subjectivity: the perceived point of life, how to live our lives, how we interact, how we are affected by things ~ it's all completely personal, subjective and varies from person to person.
@sonship saidAll the words were written decades after Jesus' death.
Matthew 5-7 ? Separate the authentic words from the emendations of hijackers.
@sonship saidLike I said, the things we are talking about are purely subjective for both of us.
@FMF
This is why it's all in the realm of subjectivity: the perceived point of life, how to live our lives, how we interact, how we are affected by things ~ it's all completely personal, subjective and varies from person to person.
Is there an exception for this statement of yours above?
Then we should regard your explanation as not absolutely true bec ...[text shortened]... e it too is your personal, subjective opinion?
Is it too part of the "all completely personal" ?
@sonship saidYour admiration for the version of him created in the decades and centuries after his death is, of course, your prerogative, but it still is not a "Moral Argument for God's Existence".
Whoever are the imaginative people who invented Jesus and fictionalized words and deeds that He spoke, then must be consulted for conceiving the arguably highest known standard of human morality.
Like I said, the things we are talking about are purely subjective for both of us.
@sonship saidChristians are entitled to believe whatever they want, from whatever source, according to whatever story-about-the-process-of-it-being-passed-along-and-written-and-further-worked-on-for-centuries they want. Meanwhile, non-Christians have absolutely no way of knowing what "the authentic words of Jesus" were.
Does the timing of when the words were written hinder you from separating out the authentic words of Jesus from the ones you detect texturally are amendations?
How do we know that you are not using "all written years afterwards" as a handy excuse not to be able to point out "Here are the words HIJACKERS attributed to Jesus. Here are words He said." ?
@sonship saidNo one here is going to try to prove anything to you, as far as I know.
How do I know "Words written years latter" is not just an excuse to fail to prove the message was hijacked?
@sonship saidThere is no onus on you to find my words "reliably true in an overall sense".
Then this sentence is not reliably true in a overall sense.
It is like " I can only speak three words of English."
It is self referentialy incoherent.