Re: Do you ever doubt God's existence?

[Mars_ax]

I've never, at least in my adult life, had any belief in the existence of "god". Gods/religions are man created concepts, designed to "guide" you though life, thanks, but no thanks, I can think just fine for myself.
Take Jesus for example, who if he actually existed (which I don't believe he did) was just a man, no more "special" than billions of other men, past and present.
It may sound pretentious and sacrilegious of me to a Christian, but why would I want to think like Jesus did or pattern my life after a schizophrenic holy-man who's probably a fictive character in a religious novel?

I get not believing Jesus was the son of god but history is pretty set that a man named Jesus of Nazareth did in fact walk the Earth and was crucified.

I've done a lot of research on the actual existence of Jesus, the reality is, his alleged existence isn't even close to becoming a forgone conclusion. My guess is Jesus was a composite of rabbis/holy-men that festered during that period in history. One thing that is certain, the "Jesus" character described in the "New Testament", written 50 to 300 years after his alleged death by unknown authors, is pure religious fiction and/or a holy fairytale.

BTW, Nazareth might not have even existed during the time "Jesus" was alleged to have "walked the earth".

Did Jesus exist?

I dont' really have a dog in this fight but lets be serious for a minute. Regardless of your beliefs just about every single Christian, Muslim and Jew believe that Jesus was an actual man that walked this Earth. That is an overwhelming majority of the planets population that believe in his mere existence. Foregone conclusion? Maybe not and I don't know that that there will ever be but Jesus is definitely winning the popularity vote.

Being serious: this is an "argument from numbers" typically called ad populum, or an appeal to popularity. Since most people in general believe jesus existed, and most Christians, Muslims and Jews believe that Jesus was an actual man who walked this Earth, it therefore only makes sense that jesus existed, literally and historically. Millions also believed that the earth was flat, or that the earth was the center of the Universe, does that make it a fact? I think not.

Billions past and present believe that "Jesus" was the "son of god", a man, or a man-god that actually existed. There is however a large number of secular theologians and biblical scholars (including me) who've found "Jesus" to be historically non-existent.

When it comes to "Jesus" and the "New Testament", I take all that happy horseshit with a grain of salt, read and learn:

http://nobeliefs.com/exist.htm