The Sunday Jesus: The Cover-up

Republicans Hate Jesus!

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.-Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 7:12)

"Maybe we ought to consider a golden rule. Don’t do to other nations what we don’t want them to do to us."-Ron Paul


Ron Paul Booed by Insane Debate Audience for Endorsing the Golden Rule

The Sunday Jesus: Jesus on Toast

Researchers at Northwestern University say there's a reason why some people have claimed to see familiar faces in their toast.




I wonder if Jesus must return in the form of toast, or on a pancake or something, maybe even in the clouds (as he is supposed to) but not in flesh, but as a cloud! After all, he hasn't shown up now for 2,000 years, so naturally those expecting to see him will be forced to conjure him up out of a thin, toasty slice of bread.

My Mom's mother and sister were quite the Catholic believers, and once, many years ago, they insisted on showing me a "miracle" photograph supposedly taken from an airplane. It was Jesus in the clouds! Well, I wasn't convinced. It vaguely resembled a figure in a robe with arms outstretched, but you had to really stretch your imagination to see Jesus. Nevertheless, my grandmother declared confidently "That's our Lord!"

There seemed to follow a discussion about it being a possible sign that the Lord was returning soon, but it didn't get very far, as I recall, because as Catholics, they didn't really buy into the "we're living in the last days" Late, Great Planet Earth thing. Nor did their behavior indicate any concern on their part that judgment was near, but I won't go into that here. Catholics, after all, have the confessional, so it was pretty easy to be forgiven for almost anything "unchristian".


So, Jesus haunts us on our toast, as reliable a sign of his overcoming of death as that resurrection story in the gospels. I still don't believe it.

The Sunday Jesus: Christian-In-Chief

William Lane Craig: What About Catholicism?

The Sunday Jesus: Please Help Me, Jesus!

The following is evidence of the damage Christian "thinking" can do to a young mind:



Today I start my diary. For myself only, I hope. Jesus, please forgive me if I'm wrong in this. I know my thoughts are evil, my heart is very wicked; have mercy on me, Lord, I need you! I hope I love you. Please let me love you, it is a wonderful privilege. I don't feel right in making this diary, because I feel in my heart that my motives are wrong. But I can still do it for myself, to reread sometimes. If it's really wrong, if God hates it, I'll stop soon!!!


But I am saved. If I trust in Jesus he won't let me down! If I fall he will pick me up.

I am afraid of dying! I hope Jesus keeps me alive on this earth a little longer.

I don't want to doubt. I know God loves me, I wish I could feel more excited I feel so dead inside. But God has been good to me, it is amazing all the wonderful things he's done!!! I mean that with my heart. When I have been sick God has always healed me. I can say (I don't lie!) I have seen Him perform great miracles in my life.

Don't feel good right now, sick in body. I need to be baptized to confess Jesus before others.

"If ye will not confess me before men, neither will I confess you before my Father in Heaven."

I must tell Dad tomorrow that I want to be baptized. I should not be afraid. I am a horrible coward. But when it comes to Jesus, my wonderful, lovely, kind, caring, patient, forgiving savior, I must not be a coward, not after what he did for me.

I must believe Jesus no matter what happens. If I die before tomorrow I trust that God will be with me. I need help, only God can help me.

Please forgive Lord!

Went to ______ today. Pastor ________ in the morning on Unity of the Spirit and Faith. He was right. I judge where I have no right to judge, considering what I am. However, there are some doctrines that now that I think I understand them would never want to give up. Predestination, Election, Eternal Security, they are very true! Pastor ________ is still a good man though, and closer to God than I shall ever be. I used to hold to certain doctrines for wrong reasons. I hope it is not so any longer.

Evening service Pastor ________ on 1 Corinthians 13 on love, "great sermon". I needed to hear it. I have so little love for others and for God. I want to change. God will help me to change. I don't want to play a game.


Lord, love me! Help me not to do evil in your sight. I need you. I am nothing.


Praise God for great men like John Bunyan and C.H. Spurgeon. Both of their writings have helped me a lot.

I know God is real and Christ is real. I wish I could live just one week without any doubts! Maybe someday I shall. What a great day that would be. I hope I live to see it. I think I may.

God does answer prayer. I love my dad, God bless him. He is a good and kind father. I am lucky to have him.

Jesus is very good! I hope I love him.

Please help me Jesus!

The Sunday Jesus: Jesus Loves Nukes

The Air Force has suspended decades-old Bible-centric ethics training intended to make Christian officers comfortable with the possible use of nuclear weapons. The training program was given to all new missile officers by Air Force chaplains.
"We're in the process of reviewing that training and we'll make a determination whether or not to continue [it] or if it will be a different course," Air Education and Training Command spokesman Dave Smith told Military.com.

Smith said the ethics training has been in place more than 20 years, although he didn't know exactly when it was begun.

The training slides include quotations from the Bible, portraits of Christian saints, prophets, and famous American generals known for their faith, including George Washington, Union Army Gen. Joshua Chamberlain, and Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

Every new missile officer had to take the training at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, regardless of their own religious beliefs or lack of them...
-U.S. Air Force Pulls 'Jesus Loves Nukes' Training

The Sunday Jesus: Jesus Was Wrong and Should Be Ignored

By the Bible's own standard, Jesus is a false prophet and should be ignored. He made a prediction about his return to Earth that didn't come true. Why don't Christians believe their Bible on this?


The Last Week: A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem

The Sunday Jesus: Was Jesus Raised From the Dead?

Was Jesus Bodily Raised from the Dead? William Lane Craig vs. James Crossley






New Testament scholar Dr. Bart Ehrman explains problems with the resurrection accounts from a historical perspective.

The Sunday Jesus: Christian Atheism?

Jesus, although not seen as divine, is still a central feature of Christian atheism. Most Christian atheists think of Jesus as a wise and good man, accepting his moral teachings but rejecting the idea of his divinity.-Wikipedia

Most Christians might as well be atheists, cause they don't really believe any of it, and if they say they do, then their actions deny it completely.


Oh, and welcome back, Sunday Jesus post! You've been missed here at SE.

Jesus, I have a question for you (and I hope you'll leave a comment here, thus proving your existence): How come all of your followers aren't on the same page? I thought you were going to give them the Holy Spirit so they would know all truth and not have to just guess what the hell you were talking about. Well?

Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? (William Lane Craig vs Richard Carrier)

Be More Like Jesus In The Coming Year

The Punk Patriot

Fed Hates The Lord Jesus

Found here (with video);

Federal Reserve examiners come every four years to make sure banks are complying with a long list of regulations. The examiners came to Perkins last week. And the team from Kansas City deemed a Bible verse of the day, crosses on the teller’s counter and buttons that say "Merry Christmas, God With Us." were inappropriate. The Bible verse of the day on the bank's Internet site also had to be taken down.

Phone Call: Is Jesus God?

Jesus Loves You!

The Sunday Jesus: Football Lord

Resurrections?

Chippy the Squirrel vs Jesus the Christ

I am going to demonstrate with completely sound reasoning why the most reasonable conclusion based on the evidence is that Chippy the squirrel rose from the dead.

There are four historical facts which must be explained by any adequate historical hypothesis:
1. Chippy's burial
2. The discovery of the empty tomb
3. His post-mortem appearances
4. The origin of a few people's belief in his resurrection




Re-formulating William Lane Craig's 4 Facts Resurrection Argument

Chippy Lives!

A Contemporary Chippian Rock Band (Spreading Chippy's Gospel Through Music)



There are other claims of resurrection, however, including the claim of Christians that Jesus rose from the dead after his death on the cross.

From Chris Hallquist comes this: Jesus' Resurrection, Debunked in One Page [pdf]. Hallquist says that it is "directed at Evangelical Christians who claim the resurrection can be proven on historical grounds." (from a comment here).

Among Evangelical Christians, it’s become popular to claim that Jesus’ resurrection can be proved with historical evidence. This is nonsense. Here’s why:

1. There is no evidence for the resurrection outside the Bible. Non-Christian historical references to Jesus don’t occur until about six decades after the time when Biblical scholars think he probably died. When these non-Christian sources refer to Jesus’ miracles, there’s no reason to see them as anything more than a report of what Christians of the time believed.

2. There is little evidence that the Gospels were written by eyewitnesses, or based directly on eyewitness accounts. Most of what the Bible says about Jesus’ life and supposed resurrection is in the first four books of the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, (a.k.a. the Gospels). But Biblical scholars now agree these books were originally anonymous, their names added later. The traditional Christian claims about who wrote them is now widely doubted by scholars.

3. This means that the Gospels can’t be trusted as evidence for miracles. Imagine someone trying to convert you to another religion based on the “proof” of the miracles worked by the religion’s founder… in the form of a handful of anonymous tracts recounting his life. Would you accept that “proof”? Of course not. Among other things, the stories could just be legends.

The Sunday Jesus: The Jesus Pee Pee Miracle

Christian missionaries pray for man to pee in his pants.




"Go in peace, your faith has made you pee"-Jesus

Oh, hell, just go grab a 12 pack; that'll make you pee.


So Jesus walks into a bar and says, "I'll just have a glass of water."

The Sunday Jesus: God Is Jesus, Jesus Is God

Jehovah's Witnesses would dispute the idea that Jesus was or could be God, and so would I.

Thank you, Dr.Zakir Naik, for clearing that up. I understood every word you said and after hearing you speak I think this issue is settled for all time!

The Sunday Jesus: Jesus Christ Inspired Outfit

Jesus, like Richie Rich, always wore the same clothes.

The Sunday Jesus: Christians Go "Bad"

Christian Remake of Michael Jackson's "Bad"


Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)