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Originally posted by water_boy1999
The Bible is a fable. It is a story that starts with one man, Jesus, then evolves over centuries to give people something to believe in.
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I apologize in advance for this sounding rude, though it isn't meant that way.
This quote reveals that you know little to nothing about the structure of the Bible. The Bible starts with Genesis, Jesus doesn't come in (except within the confines of prophecy) till the last 3rd. While the argument can be made that the entire Old Testament is in fact a "gearing up" for Jesus, that interpretation is not present in my perception of your post. After Jesus, the narrative of the Bible only continues for less than a hundred years. As a complaint directed towards people in a more general sense: many assume that because they were raised in what is thought of as a Christian society, that they have a good idea of what the Christianity or the Bible is all about. This notion is, I feel, damaging to both Christians and those who choose other paths because it creates such a depth of unrealized misunderstanding.
I thought this quote applicable to this thread:
...that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), from _Mere_Christianity