Why Christianity? What makes you think its the right one?

The Jews prophesied a messiah was coming, right?

Messiah 101

John 4:25

Dating the Bible; Table IV, the New Testament

Scroll down to Table IV....

Jesus' resurrection was roughly 30 - 36 AD.

The Gospel of John was supposed to have been authored between 90 - 110 AD (speculative date), but the earliest Greek papyri is dated 125 - 160 AD.

You'll notice that John is referring not to Jesus of Nazareth, but a future Messiah....which coincides with Jewish tradition.

He's fulfilling prophecies left and right...

Jesus did not fulfill any Messianic prophesies.

The large majority of your words are general Christian theology, but very little are based in actual Biblical facts or Jewish tradition.

The message continued to survive persecution even with the power of the world's greatest empire trying to snuff them out. These Christians, these poor middle eastern men and women, were surviving against armies, gold, and might with simply the power of the words of Jesus on their hearts.

Of the Gospel authors, 3 didn't even know Jesus...never met him. Yet their books make up 80% of the NT; Paul, Luke & Mark.

Paul's real name was actually Saul who was a Pharisee. Saul was Jesus enemy and it's clear in Matthew 23 that Jesus' viewpoint of the Pharisee wouldn't suddenly change on a whim. So Paul's claim of being an apostle is just a blatant lie and I'll show you why; see my comments below about Luke's testimony.

Paul's books

Hebrews is disputed, to date there's no known author.

All of the books that Paul authored are NOT Jesus viewpoints, they're strictly Paul's. Since Jesus' resurrection was long before Saul came into the picture, everything that Paul wrote is his own beliefs.

Two witnesses are required for supporting valid testimony. This is where Paul & Luke's books fail miserably and cannot pass close scrutiny since Luke witnessed absolutely nothing and Paul tried to replace Moses by attempting to alter the Torah. Which Paul succeeded in doing with Christians that do not observe the commandments and has lead people away from God.

Luke's testimony is equally misleading as it's mostly copied versions of Matthew or direct contradictions. Luke witnessed zip, that includes Saul's claim of seeing Jesus in a vision on the road to Damascus. Luke didn't even know Saul then, so his testimony in the book of Acts is fraudulent in it's entirety cuz Luke wasn't even there.

Luke's Books

Mark's book has some credence since he was Peter's disciple, but Mark also did not know Jesus. So his testimony is also not eyewitness and is at least 3rd or 4th party from unknown sources.

Throw out all of the non-witness testimonies and what's left of Christianity?

8 Books out of 27 total.

The largest majority of Christianity isn't what Jesus taught, it's what Paul taught.

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