Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?
Baahb@lemmy.world 5 months agoMy parents weren’t executed horribly, what are you talking about about? I’m still talking about contemporary Christian belief. Thesis: You can consider yourself Christian without belief in Jesus as a historical figure. Many Christians are happy to understand Jesus as metaphors and an ideal. Like if you took the actually good Superman stories and removed all the context, you could idealize the individual to the point of worship without believing he’s real.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 months ago
The whole point of Christianity isn’t just to “do good”. The foundation is that we aren’t good enough by nature and are flawed by our own fault, but by trusting in and following God, we can be forgiven. Because Jesus literally existed and was executed for our sins.
Baahb@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That feels a lot like your personal interpretation. You do not get to decide how people who call themselves Christian define themselves.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I’m going to start calling myself “muslim” then, as “muslim” means “one who submits to God”
Baahb@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You go ahead and do that. Worth noting that Islam doesn’t have a protestant reformation thats come in to say “f this the rules are whatever I want them to be personally,” so it’s basically still in its Catholic hegemony phase.