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OT: Rebelious reopening of locked topic 26-Aug-2010 At 10:28:16 AM dave h.

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On 26/08/2010 Dave C wrote:
>There would have been absolutely nobody called "Jesus" in first century
>palestine. That is a latinized version of a Greek interpretation of a hebrew
>name, possibly Yeshua which has come down the ages more directly as Joshua.
>The ways Christianity finds to avoid acknowledging that their so-called
>"messiah" was actually Jewish never fail to amuse me.

Yes, well done Dave C. You are quite correct. Forgive me for using a rendition of his name with which more readers would be familiar. I have no problem with admitting Jesus is Jewish. Jewish Jewish Jewish. Happy?

Wendy wrote:
>Considering only 1/3 of the population believe in Christianity, it's not making sense to almost 5 billion people.

Truth is not determined by a popularity contest. And to say that everyone who doesn't believe in Christianity does not believe because it doesn't make sense is quite an assumption. I'm not going to concede any contradiction in Christianity without someone actually making the case for it - 'because Simey said so' isn't quite good enough.

On 26/08/2010 rolsen1 wrote:
>You need to consider that the Australian church is made of of white middle
>class people; luckily they have found (and twisted) some verses to back
>up their prejudices and discriminatory actions. The gospel preached by
>most mainstream churches in Australia is closer to Dr Phil than World Vision.

So your criticism of Australian christians is that they are not actually Christian enough? Fair enough.