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Actually that adds significance...God is soooo full if love for his creation (even after we turned our back on him and exchanged the truth for a lie) that He himself would come and subject Himself to be treated less than God. He is a good God and a jealous God...sin had a price and He himself paid it. God is love.

Hundreds, if not thousands of people welcomed him into the city on Palm Sunday, but they were expecting a political ruler who would overthrow the Romans. Upon his capture and death, the vast majority gave up on his idea entirely and began looking for a new Messiah who would fit their preconceived notions.

These are just terrible examples. How do I even know you're not Jesus?

But you aren't far off. I believe George Washington was the first President because their is enough amount of evidence that he was that you kind of have to. Here's a better example.
Do you believe that George Washington could not tell a lie? That he chopped down a cherry tree as a kid?
I don't. These are thing made up about him by those in power for a political purpose.

Do you believe the Civil War was started to free the slaves? I don't. That is revisionist history made up by those in power to serve a political purpose.

Do you believe Kim Jong Il golfed an 18? I don't. That is something made up to serve a political purpose.

If you believe any of those things, you are an idiot.

But here are some better examples.

OP, do you believe Atlantis existed? I don't. But I can't fault you if you do. There's evidence it did, just not enough to convince me.

Do you believe Socrates existed? I do. There is enough evidence to convince me, even if most of that evidence comes from the same person who provides much of the evidence on Atlantis.

I had a professor who didn't believe in either. He believed both were made up by Plato as story telling devices, or in the case of Atlantis, he revived it's story.

I believe that someone that the image of Jesus is based on lived, and probably was a religious figure who probably was a good dude. I do not believe he was the son of god, or that he performed any of the miracles that are credited to him. Those are the same thing to me as George Washington and never telling a lie. Stuff made up to serve a political purpose. It's also been revised as power has changed to fit other political purposes.

What has Phillip Marshal ever done that was so great? I mean besides writing Alabama articles?

There....... just wanted to officially get this thread deleted.

There is plenty of physical evidence of the Roman Empire. Even beyond the countless written accounts, there are millions of artifacts, from the Coliseum all the way down to Roman coins that people still find in troves today.,

Thats not a very good comparison, since there is no physical evidence of the existence of Christ.

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Not even fishing here, what is out of line in this thread? There are a lot of threads discussing religion, and everyone has been civil ITT?

USMCAG started about 13 threads titled OBAMA
There is a thread about gay marriage
There is the daily prayers / support thread
OT stuff is pretty common on this board. Not RCMB common, but pretty common.

It is clear you haven't even read the thread. Thanks for your misinformed opinion though.

I apologize

He rose from the dead. How many people do you know that did that? Don't say Bear Bryant either.

With 500 witnesses?! Lol

Happy to have some company down there?

You're welcome. And, you've offered another good observation. Jesus is/was/always will be God. That didn't change with His incarnation. However, with the same height He had in his "godness" he also experienced the same degree of extreme separation on the Cross. He literally had to experience hell for us. The Bible describes hell, most often, as a place of terrible separation from God. Since there is no time in heaven and hell one moment in each is like an eternity. His separation from the Father would have been eternally worse than ours. To your last point, hell isn't so much a place that God banishes us to as it is a place we'd prefer to go than heaven. Heaven is a place where God, among other things, is continually worshipped. We don't naturally want the biblical God. Hell is the natural fulfillment of a life lived in arrogance toward God. Hellbound individuals would hate heaven. In hell they can continue their hatred for God's rightful authority and continue in their irrational notions of their own "godness."