On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 08:24:21 +0100, Martin Willett
<mwillett.org@invalid.invalid> wrote:

<such as the Christian fantasy that the Romans knew Jesus was 
<really a god 

.......So here we have a case of a human being saying that Jesus is
God.
But according to the  scriptures this is impossible,
because it is stated in Numbers 23:19, in I Samuel 15:29, and in Hosea
11:9 that G.d is not a man. The Jewish idea about G.d is that He is a
spiritual being, and not flesh and blood. See Genesis 1:2; "And the
spirit of G.d moved upon the face of the waters."...  it is
an abomination that the one true G.d should be a human. G.d is an
indefinable, spiritual, invisible being. "There shall no man see me
and live." Exodus 33:20. By saying that G.d is a man, or that He is 2,
or 3, or 3 in 1, you are defining G.d, who is indefinable.

<The 
<reality was a small number of Christians were persecuted for their 
<atheism, for not believing in the gods that the civilized world recognized.

Many were murdered for knowing the truth, not for atheism.  Many a
witch was burned for knowing the true message of Christ.  Organized 
Religion has always been a political party nothing more.

.

--   In the mind of Christ,
       Apricate.

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But Jesus using the smallest of points overlooked by
the religious proved that they did not know God. 
Jesus also indicated that it was not by searching
the scriptures that you have eternal life
but by knowing the spirit.

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