@Carico,
Carico;66879 wrote:So you think that Jesus was telling the truth. is that correct? :what: If so, why do you debate his words?:eek:
Jesus belonged to his time, like Socrates, Lenin or your Great-Uncle Fred, and he thought in the terms of his time: 'truth' is not relevant to historical world-views, as you'd know if you had the least understanding of history. People who believed in angels, say, were not liars: it was something people took for granted. What's more, whatever Jesus may have said, the reports we have are heavily influenced by the notion in the early Church that, like Augustus, very important people could somehow become/were something called 'gods' - whatever they may have meant by that odd term. For myself, I doubt very much whether Jesus ever said more than that he was, like other people,
a 'son of God'. It meant something to him, whatever he said, and he was not, of course, lying. Like you he did not live in the modern age, but in his case he couldn't. YOU, on the other hand, can.