>>23597292what stopped me from believing in biblical history and narratives isn't that it's taking too long or that there are bad people who adhere to those beliefs or that crimes were committed in that name of this history or that it's "not modern". what made me stop believing in it is that it contradicts archeology and history. Jesus was crucified 2000 years ago and he ended up as corpse. he can't save you when he literally just a dead man on a stick. save you from what anyway?
both you and I know that the global flood didn't happen and that the first human wasn't from 6000 years ago. it contradicts reality and history and truth and everything else. But it's no big deal because we know old testament authors and editors were using tropes popular at the time to write their stories which weren't accurate to reality.
the same is true for new testament authors and editors.
Apollonius (a historical figure) has healed the sick, raised the dead, and cast out demons, and he did that with eye witness accounts.
Dionysus, the god of wine would turn water into wine and even rivers into rivers of wine with eye witness accounts too.
The Roman Emperor Vespasian (a historical figure) healed the sick and cured the blind in Alexandria before becoming emperor, with eye witness accounts
The same is true with virgin birth, walking on water and ascension to God/gods/heaven. All of those miracles were common in that era and were all done before Jesus did them with eyewitness accounts. Do you how many historical pagan Roman emperors from that era ascended to God/gods/heaven?
Jesus wasn't the first to do tricks and he was never the only one. and his countless eye witness accounts aren't unique to him. and the countless experiences his followers went through weren't unique to them.
what baffles me is how the fuck are you able to still lie to yourself and pretend it's all true? he was literally a dead man on a stick he simply cannot be anything more than that except in imagination
