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Excuse my attention span, but I only read three-quarters of the way down the first page. But in response to the whole "God sent down Jesus, who is really God, to mingle with the crowd and teach us better" thing, here comes my $.02:
The thing is, Christians are really Jewish. Hear me out on this. What I've been taught and unerstand, having grown up in a Jewish school my entire life, is that Jesus was Jewish.
Now, in the Old Testament and in the Jewish religion, we anticipate the coming of a Messiah who will save the world and bring us into a new world of peace, harmony, etc., etc. for all those who take Judaism as their faith and practice it properly. This Messiah will be born Jewish and come into his role by communicating with God.
So Jesus was born and he was good. And then he - apparently - began talking to God and preached His words and practiced His advice. Some Jews said, "Huzzah! This is our Messiah! This is the guy we've been waiting for for 3000-some-odd years! Yay!" So they proclaimed Jesus as their saviour.
However, other Jews were doubtful and did not think that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah they had all been waiting for, and there was a clash between the two groups. Believers vs. Non-believers. One group remained Jewish and the other grouped changed their names to Christians - accepters of Jesus Christ as the Messiah.
And Jesus never pulled through on that whole "saving the world bit." Methinks the Christians were wrong about him. He was just such a nice guy, it's a real pity.
However, I'm young and not as educated as I would like to be, so please, if you know better, I'd like to discuss.
And I'm agnostic for those who care to know.
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