Reply #32: On the contrary, the much more interesting question is if he was a man. [View All]

[BurtWorm]

It always amazes me when people want to defend the ideas of Jesus as real lunatic or real nobody, which have even less going for them, in terms of real evidence, than Jesus as real Messiah. That's not what I think you're saying, necessarily, but I've seen a lot of non-Christians argue that and it makes no sense to me.

It's a total fallacy that if Jesus wasn't God in the special way Christians say he was then he must have been just another man. That begs the question.


PS: By the way, whether Jesus was or wasn't a real person is much more interesting because it is meaningful in a way "was Jesus God" is not. This is another way of asking, What is the real nature of Jesus? Was he born (to put his pantlegs on one at a time, so to speak) and did he do all the animal things we humans do? Or was he purely an idea?