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Why did Jesus come ?

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  • Kwesi 10 years ago

    How about the idea Jesus just died and did not return?

    I mean, that would be the most reasonable reasoning.

    To believe in resurrection is a belief, not a fact.

  • Niibi 10 years ago

    To the 21st century rationalistic person like you the resurrection of Jesus is only "a belief" but to believers and those who lived right after the resurrection, it is a fact. If you don't beleive in the Bible, it your decisi ...
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  • Kwesi 10 years ago

    If you have to be a Christian, then it is only a faith.

    Fact is something we can prove objectively, like the fact that the Earth is round. You know intersubjective matters.

    If it is not intersubjective, it is a faith ...
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  • kwaku ba 10 years ago

    Yes. The stories in the bible are fabricated, particularly the Jesus story. It is a story, nothing more nothing less. It was never intended to be a religious book for people to believe as fact. That came later through politic ...
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  • Yaw 10 years ago

    the new testament was written 400 years after the fact? were the books of matthew, mark, luke, and John, as well as Pauls epistles written after the death of Emperor Constantine????

    Shocking anyone would say that. Do your ...
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  • kwaku ba 10 years ago

    HA HA HA HA. you must be an illiterate. Even the pope and all the bishops are aware that the gospels were written 400years plus after the purported jesus. Please google the Council of Nicea. That is where church fathers met a ...
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  • Yaw 10 years ago

    the fact that bile was put together later does not mean the books were written then. what do you make of the commentaries of polycarp, and origen and the rest on those books who, by the way lived centuries before the council ...
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  • Sheba 10 years ago

    John wrote the last book called Revelation when he was on the penal island called Patmos around the year 96 C. D., around 60 years after the death of Jesus. He was jailed for speaking about Christ. The great event in the yea ...
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  • Lord Lettuce 10 years ago

    Funny no contemporary historian wrote about about either hearing or meeting this zombie Jesus,all the stories about him comes from conflicting accounts in the bible written over 3 decades after his alleged death.

  • 2yys 10 years ago

    Blasphemy

  • agang 10 years ago

    COME ON KEEP YOUR DECEPTION TO YOURSELF. YOU ARE SO LIMITED TO DEC EIVE GOOD PEOPLE TO YOUR SIDE. STOP THINK, AND CHANGE YOUR MIND.

  • odehyeeba 10 years ago

    PSALM 14:1-2

  • Godnodey 10 years ago

    if religion can make a man kill hundreds of people in hope that he would receive 72 virgins what else cant it do.dude religion is the opium of the masses nothing turns off ones thinking cup than religion. Jesus was a myth and ...
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  • KOMFO ANOYE 10 years ago

    RELIGION IS POLITICS AND MAN MADE. IT WAS MADE TO CONTROL THE MINDS OF THE PEOPLE.

  • Lord Lettuce 10 years ago

    Jesus came because he was horny

  • Lord Lettuce 10 years ago

    Jesus if ever existed is dead wonder why his cult members are still obsessed with the lie he is risen,where the hell is their risen savior?its only in their head.Anything in ones head is an illusion.

  • Sheba 10 years ago

    Do you believe that there is an Artic ocean? Have you physically seen it with your own eyes? If you believe it, that is faith. What if that ocean is not there. How do you know? It may be a big lie. About the resurrection, Je ...
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  • Kwame USA 10 years ago

    The black man has to be ashamed of himself following the religion of his oppressor.

    Even Europeans have relegated Christianity to the background.

  • Kwapps 10 years ago

    If God, in his infinite wisdom creates an imperfect world and, upon realising his mistakes, decides to send his son or himself to die...what a piece of cock-and-bull-tell-it-to-kindergarten nonsense is this?

  • atheist 10 years ago

    And then this god sends you to some fiery eternal punishment, not for evil deeds, but because you didn't believe that he sacrificed his son. This creator is a failure.

  • kwaku ba 10 years ago

    Indeed.

    There was no jesus and there is no god. It is indeed a cock and bull story.

    Even what is preached in the churches is not what is written in the Bible. Take Easter, which is not taught in the bible. Easter was a ...
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  • Krikri 10 years ago

    THE MAJORITY ARE CONFOUNDED. For me it looks like the UNTRUTH MUST BE PROTECTED BY ALL MEANS AND AT ALL COSTS. BUT FOR WHAT END?

  • Yaw 10 years ago

    Funny how ignorant and illiterate people like you use the bible as evidence of no god. and then try to convince yourself that the Jesus story follows that of Horus or any other story for that matter. I Challenge you to dispro ...
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  • kwaku ba 10 years ago

    OK. so open your Bible and give us the quotation for
    Easter
    Christmas
    Trinity
    Rapture
    These are four strong beliefs of Christians but guess what, the Bible does not mention any of them. Ha ha ha. This is how we see that ...
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  • Micki 10 years ago

    Wasnt Horus the son of Osiris and Isis? Didn't those gods practice disgusting things and were very cruel and violent. Studies of Egyptian gods will show that very clearly. They were a triad. That did develop into the Trinity ...
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  • Yaw 10 years ago

    Your choice to believe and repent or not. but on that day, better you were tossed onto the surface of the sun than falling into the hands of the Almighty

  • Godnodey 10 years ago

    Religions always resort to fear tactics when persuasion fails.Sorry ive grown past the threats of hell.

  • GIDEON ATONGO 10 years ago

    I like the fact that Jesus lived a life that is worthy of emulation by his followers. The religious violence and terrorism we see all around us is because the founders of those religions never taught and practiced the love of ...
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  • Abraham Dia 10 years ago

    Jesus came because he was confused as to whether he was son of God or God himself, a man or a woman, a brave man or a coward who scared to fight the Romans.

  • paquinini 10 years ago

    abraham dias...its ma prayer that the lord God grans u wisdom n knowledge......cos u r way behind.....how can jesus be confused....well u knw not wat u typed cos if u did....u wouldnt av

  • Krikri 10 years ago

    But is Jesus the ONLY 'Son' of God or God? I read somewhere that God called Israel his 'first born'. Can I get some enlightenment on this? I also read in Acts 2:22 that 'Jesus,was a Man approved of God through miracles that G ...
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  • GIDEON ATONGO 10 years ago

    The sonship of Jesus is unique and not in the same context in which Israel or the prophets were called sons of God. Reading through the gospels,you get to understand that Jesus was claiming co-equality with the father any tim ...
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  • Serebour 10 years ago

    Aren't you confused by what you just laid out here?

  • Micki Duplantier 10 years ago

    No. It is right there in your Bible

  • Serebour 10 years ago

    I question the intelligence of anyone who thinks everything written in the bible is a "fact" and an accurate account of "actual" historical events that "really" occurred.

  • Lord Lettuce 10 years ago

    only gullible people see the bible as historical fact.

  • Micki Duplantier 10 years ago

    He did say that many unbelievers would be rediculers of his people, and they would be in spiritual darkness blinded from the truth.

  • Micki Duplantier 10 years ago

    The Bible has not been proven to be false. Historians and archaeologists are presently still finding evidence of events the Bible speaks of. The Bible is not a history book. It is a book of prophecy.

  • Serebour 10 years ago

    Of Course they will find such evidence. it's the same as watching a movie or reading a story set in 1915 Accra; there would definitely be evidence of the set location today but does that make the movie or story a true histori ...
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  • agang 10 years ago

    DO U THINK U ARE A HUMAN THA WE CANNOT UNDERSTAND SO DON'T TRY TO THINK INTO THAT

  • Micki Duplantier 10 years ago

    ???????

  • Godnodey 10 years ago

    Read these to your kids as bedtime stories.

  • Micki Duplantier 10 years ago

    First born means the first one born in a family or the oldest child. In this setting it means the first born of all creation. He had approval for what he performed. The approval came from his Heavenly Father, The Devil did' ...
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  • K. Opoku-Mensah 10 years ago

    This is refreshing and good for meditation. Keep the spirit up and reach out to as many people as the Lord may lead you, Amen.

  • oshe 10 years ago

    I want to see the DNA of Jesus. Who is his father? Recently, the last person from Jesus family died in France!

  • nkwantabesa 10 years ago

    my brother or sister where did you get this story? I really pity you because you seem to have been hijacked by the devil. if God was not with Him could he have performed miracles like raising the death, healing lepers and oth ...
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  • Serebour 10 years ago

    and they're the first to condemn people to hell when their "stories" are challenged because it does not hold up to scrutiny.

    Indeed what one does not understand he/she fears or worship.

    Peace Out

  • VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

    HE HAD TWO KIDS WITH MARY MAGDALENE, A BOY AND A GIRL, THE LAST PERSON DIED IN FRANCE WAS FROM HIS DAUGHTERS SIDE.
    THE BOY WAS MIGRATED TO ENGLAND, AND THE EX-PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR OF BRITAIN IS THE DESCENDANT OF JESUS.
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  • kwaku ba 10 years ago

    tony blair is a descendant of jesus?

    ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

    you are too funny.

    but you made my day.
    thank you.

  • Serebour 10 years ago

    You see how funny that is? it's the same way your jesus story sound and feel.

    extremely ridiculous.

  • me 10 years ago

    To RESSURECT AND TO BE ALIVE ARE TWO DIFFERENT WORDS.WHEN JESUS HAD ENCOUNTER WITH HIS DISCIPLES IN THE UPPER ROOM,ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE WHEN CRITICALLY READ,ALL JESUS DID WAS TO TRY AND CONVINCE THEM THAT HE WAS ALIVE AND D ...
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  • VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

    LET THEM FOOL THEMSELVES, HE DID NOT DIE. JUDAS HELPED HIM OUT TO ESCAPE TO FRANCE, MARY MAGDALENE WAS PREGNANT WITH HIS CHILD, AND SHE LATER ON JOINED HIM IN FRANCE.
    I ADMIRE WHAT HE DID FOR MANKIND. HE WAS THE FIRST HUMAN ...
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  • Yaw 10 years ago

    Too much Dan Brown. You must own a copy of Davinci code

  • Python 10 years ago

    So you worship the tony murderer blair as he the insane deluded bush throw bombs on irak and murder many innocent children and woman. Go and open your vagina for him and better stop writing non-sense here.

  • owusu 10 years ago

    Halleluiah! Well what I will like to add is that when God created Adam and Eve all was well till they both ate from the forbidden fruits in the Garden of Eden. The very Adam God created became corrupted and was condemned to d ...
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  • Krikri 10 years ago

    If Jesus The Christ (or is it Christ?) died to nullify Adam's ORIGINAL SIN and reconcile us to God 2000 years ago,why are we still born in Sin?

  • me 10 years ago

    are u not ashamed narrating this concused story.u only need to think instead of believing every crap.

  • REVELATION + RATIONALITY=TRUTH 10 years ago

    Sorry, Jesus(on whom be peace) did not die on the cross. He went into a swoon and was revived in the tomb using healing herbs made of aloe.

    When he was pierced on the cross with a sword, the Bible said immediately blood an ...
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  • I'm God 10 years ago

    The real truth about a man called Jmmanuel: forged to Jesus Christ to hide the real truth.

    The only fact and real truth here in your source is, he did not die. He escaped to India, married and had children and died at the ...
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  • nkwantabesa 10 years ago

    the summary was sufficient to let us know who our lord Jesus Christ is and the reasons He was with us on earth until we crucified him without any justification. He was a great leader worthy of our attention and prayers. He ne ...
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  • EZEKIEL 10 years ago

    So you really belive Jesus DIED for your Sins ?? Why do you go to confession then ?? He has died for the past, present and the Future!!!!
    Just believe and ASK NO QUESTIONS.....otherwise you'll turn DIZZY!!

  • kwasi 10 years ago

    Reading the comments make me sad. Don't people know that there is a power behind the planets staying in their tracks. The order in which these bodies rotate and revolve are controlled. Jesus came to reveal to us the God behin ...
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  • kwaku ba 10 years ago

    My Brother,
    In fact no gods are needed for planets to follow their tracks. This has been known since 15th century when Johanes Kepler presented equations showing how planets move. Unfortunately most people do no study advanc ...
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  • Wilson k Ampae 10 years ago

    Our lord jesus will surery come whether raining or shine

  • KB 10 years ago

    Can you,Kwesi,prove objectively that the earth is round?

  • Kwesi 10 years ago

    Yeah. People have known that since ancient Greece. You can measure it by the curve of the Earth add in some math.

    If math isnt enough, we got pictures from outer space.

    If that is not enough, we can see other planets ...
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  • Yaw 10 years ago

    So how did humans happen and how is the universe so specially designed?

  • Python 10 years ago

    And what answer to you have to that?

  • Yaw 10 years ago

    The book of Genesis answers that question perfectly

  • Python 10 years ago

    The book of genesis is your source? Really disappointing!!!

  • Yaw 10 years ago

    yupp if you have anything else to disprove, please put it out here

  • Python 10 years ago

    You will get it in the next few days here on ghanaweb at >opinion > OsofoJoint (religion).

    The problem is, the God-cult-religious followers can never grasp it and at the same time they would again falsify the true and try ...
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  • Yaw 10 years ago

    i was expecting an answer now. disappointing!!! Would it be something along the lines of big bang theory, or macroevolution? something you need just as much faith as a christian has to believe in? Or something observable to p ...
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  • Python 10 years ago

    Better keep your cents, then I don't bet on that matter "faith" with religious people; to much indoctrination has kept their consciousness awareness thinking imprisoned. Impossible logical thinking is that.

  • Tot 10 years ago

    I have studied the confused and internally contradictory content of the NT bible we all know today AND many of the previous versions of that book right back to the significantly different content of the first/oldest codex NT ...
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  • Kwesi 10 years ago

    You haven't had science in school?

    I can recommend the American series "Cosmos" right now hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

    Btw nice to change subject. I answered your question, so you had to change focus.
    The same tacti ...
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  • Yaw 10 years ago

    really? cosmos is your go to for an explanation of the universe and how we got here??? i give up. you've won the argument. and i never changed subjects. All i said is i believe in God and Jesus because he created me.

  • Tot 10 years ago

    it is better equipped to answer questions about our universe than the bronze age religions do.

  • Kwesi 10 years ago

    You are not familiar with neither Carl Sagan or deGrasse Tyson?

    If you were, you would not dismiss Cosmos that easily.

    I brought that up since you clearly did not know basic science, so I had to conclude that you are di ...
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  • me 10 years ago

    jesus created u,then u r lost bcos he has not make that claim.

  • Tot 10 years ago

    God is just a humaninvention

  • KB 10 years ago

    First,you said people have known that the earth is round since ancient Greece.Does that sound like an objective proof to you personally that the earth is round?
    Secondly,have you personally gone to measure it by the curve of ...
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  • KB 10 years ago

    Yours is an interesting argument.So why don't YOU just believe?

  • Godnodey 10 years ago

    Jesus was a myth that got out of hand and now gullible folks worship the 2000 year old zombie as a diety.

  • Godnodey 10 years ago

    Jesus never existed and even if he did he is dead and rotten,he cannot save you.To hell with those bronze age bedtime stories only time will tell when they will be trashed as fiction

  • Mats-UK 10 years ago

    This is what a friend told me in Stockholm about year ago. The whites came to Africa and stole all your precious minerals, slave traded you and left behind what is called christianity. And now you guys are more religious tha ...
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  • Godnodey 10 years ago

    i weep more

  • agang 10 years ago

    YOU ARE MUSLIM WHO IS HIDING BEHIND SOCIAL MEDIA. GET CLOSE TO HIM AND YOU WILL KNOW HE EXIST MORE THAN YOURSELF.YOU ARE COMPLETELY LOST AND LIKE A DOG WITHOUT JESUS IN YOUR LIFE. CAREFULLY LOOK AT A GOOD CHRISTIAN AND U CAN ...
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  • Godnodey 10 years ago

    What does a living man like me need a dead zombie like Jesus for.the skeleton does not pay my bills neither does he put food on my table.Only mentally dea people need a dead man to run their lives.I am an athiest not a moslem ...
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  • CHARCOAL SELLER. 10 years ago

    My hero in the bible is ADAM, because he properly represents real manhood, Adam was put in a garden with a woman named Eve, upon seeing Eve's curvature and apple, Adam's snake (which every man has,) became erected and checked ...
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  • me 10 years ago

    THAT IS THE PROBLEM OF CHRISTIANS ALWAYS WANT TO INVOLVE MUSLIMS IN THEIR DEMISES AND WHEN THEY RESPOND THEN THEIR PROPAGANDA BEGIN ONCE AGAIN.THIS DISCUSSION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MUSLIMS SO LEAVE THEM OUT OF IT.BY THE WAY ...
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  • Micki Duplantier 10 years ago

    To give up his precious perfect blood paying the Ransom debt Adam brought upon us when he sinned and and passed it on to us. -Matt.29:28. And he came to preach and teach us the truth about the Kingdom of God. A kingdom is a d ...
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  • agang 10 years ago

    LOOSST, YOU ARE LOST MAY HE VISIT YOU TONIGHT, DON'T LET ACADEMIC DECEPTION DECEIVE YOU. WHAT U ARE SAYING MANY PEOPLE KNOW THAT BUT MOST OF THEM HAVE CHANGED TO FOLLOW THAT MAN U DO NOT BELIEVE IN HIM. MUSLIM KEEP QUITE

  • Godnodey 10 years ago

    am lying by my wife and youre telling me am lost,may who visit me?God..so he can rape me like he raped Mary..oh i guess your God is not gay anally raping atheists.

  • agang 10 years ago

    MAY JESUS VISIT ALL OF YOU WHO ARE CONDEMNING HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON. I KNOW I HAVE RECEIVE HIM AND MY LIFE GOT CHANGE FOR BETTER. DRUNKARDS, WOMANIZERS, WEE SMOKERS AND DRUNK DEALERS STOP TRYING TO COVER UP YOUR GILTS AND GIV ...
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  • NO FEAR 10 years ago

    Your god,jesus is a result of your thought of your fears,of your desire to be secured.The bible is a manual of HUMAN CONTROL.NO FEAR.

  • Joe Turkey 10 years ago

    how many Religion classes did you miss in primary school.

  • odehyeeba 10 years ago

    ALL YOU HAVE SAID ABOUT JESUS IS TRUE.JESUS DIED TO SAVE US FROM OUR SIN(ROMANS 5:8)
    JESUS IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD(JOHN 8:12)
    JESUS IS THE WAY,THE TRUE AND THE LIFE(JOHN 14:6)
    RELIGION WITHOUT BASE ON JESUS CHRIST IS FAK ...
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  • Kwame USA 10 years ago

    following the religion of the white man.

    Scientifically it is impossible for someone to die and come back to life.

    IMPOSSIBLE

  • KB 10 years ago

    Who told you that scientifically it is impossible for someone to die and come back to life?Don't try to sound scientific if you do not know what you're talking about.Word of advice;IF YOU'RE GOING TO ASSERT SCEINTIFICITY VIS ...
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