You have already provided examples of researchers you do not agree with. By the way, “I wouldn’t say I doubt their veracity, I like to assume good intentions” sounds like damning with faint praise-you either doubt their veracity or you don’t.
Do you believe that a large group of dead people arose when Jesus died?
I am trying to find out if you are applying critical thinking to your beliefs. As far as I can tell, you accept all Church dogma unchallenged.
Is there anything in the the New Testament that you find unbelievable?
Fair enough, I guess I can’t really answer that without a specific example. I may doubt the veracity of a specific researcher here or there, but not universally just because they disagree. It would be more an issue of why they disagree that could potentially expose dishonesty.
I have no reason to doubt the Gospel account, but the literal facts of that particular passage is not something I would stake my life on.
Yes, I admit to accepting all Church dogma. I became convinced that the Catholic Church is the institution founded by Jesus, with his promises attached, so I have no choice but to assent to its authority, or else leave Christianity altogether.
Unbelievable? Well any alleged supernatural event is hard to swallow, but when you come to believe that Jesus is the Creator God, of course it’s believable.
Despite advertising itself as “The Church”, there are other Christian sects out there and, if need be, even older religions.
Are there people alive today who were alive in Jesus’ time?
(bolding mine)No reason?
A large group of holy zombies rose up out of the ground and wandered into town.
Better yet, a large group of holy zombies rose up out of the ground and wandered into the town, and Matthew was the only one to make mention of this event.
Yes, I was raised in other Christian sects. I have analyzed their claims and found them lacking.
I am admittedly not very familiar with Eastern religions, but I am convinced of the divinity of Jesus.
Certainly none that we know about. If there’s someone out there who is over 2,000 years old, then good on them.
Maybe I’m just a trusting person.
Why would he make that up? Maybe the passage loses something in the English, lol, who knows?
I have a co-worker who converted to Catholicism in his adulthood, as part of a gradual movement from atheism through other Christian faiths. He’s a perfectly sane human being, apart from being a therapist, and his take on it is pretty simple: “I fully recognize that it’s laughably inconsistent, totally illogical, and beyond reason. I *choose *to believe despite this, because doing so brings value to my life. YMMV.”
Hmm, Jesus said there are:
That statement is almost universally accepted as referring to the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in AD 70. It could also refer to the establishment of the Church at Pentecost.
It does not refer to the coming at the final judgment as referred to in the Nicene Creed.
I’m glad you take your religion so seriously…lol.
My religion does not stand or fall on the literalness or lack thereof of the infamous “zombie passage”.
I take articles of faith and dogma very seriously.
Oh gee, most of His Miracles were healing the sick, something that even today a decent faith healer can do and a Quack can do with a nostrum and a MD can do with sugar pills.
Once again, I must question the size of your “universe”, for it is as easy as typing “Matthew 16:28” into whatever search engine you use to find out that what you claim is certainly not “universally accepted”.
Perhaps what you say is accepted by your particular Christian sect? I do not know.
Did Jesus appear to anyone at the destruction of the temple in AD 70?
So the “lol” is directed not at what you are taught. Is it perhaps directed at those that that would question what you are taught?
I don’t know.
Why are you interpreting “the Son of Man coming in his kingdom” as necessarily referring to a physical appearance of Jesus?
Did the Apostles interpret it that way? Did the early church fathers interpret it that way? Have Popes historically interpreted it that way?
Does Joel Osteen interpret it that way?