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A common apologetic for Christianity is that you either believe Christ was God, or that he was a lunatic. The middle ground (that is, Christ wasn't God but mer
by bmj 18y ago
A common apologetic for Christianity is that you either believe Christ was God, or that he was a lunatic. The middle ground (that is, Christ wasn't God but merely a brilliant moral philosopher) is hard to defend given what the Bible says Christ did and said.
- tptacek 18y agoIt's not a "middle ground" to suggest that the core beliefs of a religion are false. I'm not saying you have to accept Christianity or Buddhism or Zoroastrianism, but you might be a bit more self-aware.
- netcan 18y ago"Middle ground" is just not a great way of looking at things. It's nice to be able to put things on a scale of Jesus was a nice guy--->The bible contains divine guidance--->The Bible is infallible That's fine for practical reasons (eg politics). But those are essentially different beliefs. They're not on a scale in the same way that Christianity, Buddhism or Zoroastrianism are not on a scale.
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoAs a non-religious person, let me offer: I give Jesus the credence I would somebody I met at a bar --->I admire his teachings and do the best I can to emulate him-->I treat all the information I can gather about him to be divinely inspired What something is, that's dogma and inflexible. How I treat it is human nature, and infinitely scalable. As a personal note, I think I'm somewhere between 1 and 2.