For example, we can know if someone used a gun to kill someone, but how well do we know the person and that person's experience leading up to what happened that led to the killing? How much do we know about life that gives us the ability to judge others, even complete strangers from totally different backgrounds? Please consider do we have the knowledge and wisdom to judge each other? — Athena
I have not studied the bible so I am not sure what the sacrificing is about but I think it has something to do with being on God's good side. — Athena
Christianity is actually about what you call "magical salvation" .... It's all meaningless — Gregory
At age 17, I started reading attentively whatever Jesus, in person, says on the Gospel which I had (an Arabic Catholic one, printed in 1964). To my big surprise, I found out, even in my rather preliminary studies, crucial contradictions between his sayings and the Church’s teachings (Catholic or else). In brief, this personal study ended up, after many decades and to me in the least, what I may call ‘science of life reality’. — KerimF
The Christian religion, the genuine, 2000 year old Catholic tradition insists on humiliation, confession and thus the remission of sins. — Lokii
I don't know about Christianity but for judgement we need sound moral criteria and that's exactly what's missing or is highly controversial at the moment. — TheMadFool
The only historical evidence of Jesus having super power comes from his disciples and Josephus, who also was a Christian. — Gregory
Or maybe if we're in a bad place join them? Or if we're all ok, just socialize and get along cooperatively? — tim wood
I totally agree, and we are not going to achieve that goal arguing about what a holy book says because all of them are mythology and not scientific thinking. The difference is an important matter of logic. This is about fast and slow thinking. About believing it is God's truth without question, or questioning everything and not being so sure of what we think we know. A moral as a matter of cause and effect is not religious thinking but along the line of scientific logic. That is how to know truth. — Athena
That said, on the topic generally, we make judgments all the time about people, events, things. It's part of what we do. The trick is to do so intelligently. Christianity holds that judgment is required, however, as a matter of doctrine; judgment of humanity in general, and of people, according to doctrine. — Ciceronianus the White
How fortunate you are to be able to read the Bible in Arabic. I have found one language does not easily translate to another. Also, the Romans could not accept the Greek understanding of the trinity until they invented a new word to hold an understanding that could be expressed in Rome. I hold the idea, that people who know of Buddhism have a totally different understanding of Jesus than in the more materialistic West. — Athena
I think it is easier to have agreement with scientific thinking than religious thinking? Religious people disagree and yet each is sure their different understanding are God's truth is the right one. That fact of life is what made me turn away from Christianity when was a 8 years old and a Sunday school teacher could not give a good explanation of why there a Protestants and Catholics and not agreement on God's truth. Later I found out there are many more religions, all believing they have truth and willing to kill each other over who has the better truth. That is not moral. — Athena
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