Atheists do not believe Jesus existed, BUT they constantly
talk about him. :-) It's like constantly talking about a
$4 dollar bill that does not exist. :-) You have to be a
real hypocrite to constanly talk about something you do not
believe exists. :-)

"Bill" <wmech@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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The Jesus myth is no more believable than Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny.

Atheists do not believe Jesus existed, BUT they constantly talk about him. :-)
It's like constantly talking about a $4 dollar bill that does not exist. :-)
You have to be a real hypocrite to constanly talk about something you do not
believe exists. :-)

"Bill" <wmech@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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The Jesus myth is no more believable than Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny.

Atheists do not believe Jesus existed, BUT they constantly talk about him. :-)
It's like constantly talking about a $4 dollar bill that does not exist. :-)
You have to be a real hypocrite to constanly talk about something you do not
believe exists. :-)

"Bill" <wmech@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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The Jesus myth is no more believable than Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny.

Atheists do not believe Jesus existed, BUT they constantly talk about him. :-)
It's like constantly talking about a $4 dollar bill that does not exist. :-)
You have to be a real hypocrite to constanly talk about something you do not
believe exists. :-)

"Bill" <wmech@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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The Jesus myth is no more believable than Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny.

Atheists do not believe Jesus existed, BUT they constantly talk about him. :-)
It's like constantly talking about a $4 dollar bill that does not exist. :-)
You have to be a real hypocrite to constanly talk about something you do not
believe exists. :-)

[The four warnings that end the sermon on the mount] focus on
eschatological judgment and so make
it plain that the theme is still the kingdom of heaven. But
if some will not enter it (vv. 13-14, 21-23), the sole
basis for such a tragedy is their response to Jesus' words.

"Bill" <wmech@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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The Jesus myth is no more believable than Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny.

The only reason adults cling to this myth is the inherent fear of death and
the potential life after death. Who wants to burn eternally in hell. Who
does not hope to live a wonderful eternal life in heaven? This is the opiate
that bolsters the illogical religious beliefs.

Just consider how ridiculous and totally illogical the foundation of the
Christian belief
system is.

Keep in mind that God is supposedly all powerful and creator of the heavens,
the earth and all the creatures in the Universe.

This all powerful God, who created the human race with it's multitude of
imperfections and ignorance, then sent God the son to earth having him born
of the virgin Mary. He then had him grow up normally from child hood to
adulthood with the profession of an illiterate carpenter as an adult.

He then preached a variant of Judaism in a small area of the middle East.
His preaching reached only a miniscule portion of the worlds population at
that time. The millions that were born and died prior to his coming received
non of his religious instruction and lived and died without its benefits.
The other millions that he did not reach with his preachings like wise lived
and died without the benefit of his teachings and pronouncements.

Jesus then let the Romans arrest him and painfully and cruelly kill him by
nailing him to a cross with two common criminals. What could be the purpose
of this for an omnipotent God?

After all his grossly inefficient and ineffective teaching and crusifiction
he rose from his crypt and went back to heaven from whence he came.

He left behind no documents or writings of his own, as evidence of his
instructions to the human race. Instead he left it to fallible humans to
document his instructions in frequently varied and contradictory documents
now called the Bible. Despite the passage of 2,000 years he has still left
millions without the knowledge or benefit of his teachings.

Man has been able to create world wide communications systems such as
radio,TV and cell phones. Why didn't God use his awesome powers to reach
all of his subjects directly via some efficient similer communications
system. Why doesn't he now?

The answer is simple. This whole Christian/Jesus belief system is pure myth.


--
Bill Mech
wmech@att.net

Mt 7:13 Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and spacious and
broad is the way that leads away to destruction, and many are those who are
entering through it.

Mt 7:14 But the gate is narrow (contracted by pressure) and the way is
straitened and compressed that leads away to life, and few are those who find
it. [Deut. 30:19; Jer. 21:8]

Mt 7:15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you dressed as sheep, but inside
they are devouring wolves. [Ezek. 22:27]

7. Conclusion: call to decision and commitment (7:13-27)

a. Two ways (7:13-14)

The Sermon on the Mount ends with four warnings, each offering paired contrasts:
two ways (vv. 13-14), two trees (vv. 15-20), two claims (vv. 21-23), and two
builders (vv. 24-27). They focus on eschatological judgment and so make it plain
that the theme is still the kingdom of heaven. But if some will not enter it
(vv. 13-14, 21-23), the sole basis for such a tragedy is their response to
Jesus' words.

13-14 The general picture here is clear enough: there are two gates, two roads,
two crowds, two destinations. The "narrow" gate is clearly restrictive and does
not permit entrance to what Jesus prohibits. The "wide" gate seems far more
inviting. The "broad" road is spacious and accommodates the crowd and their
baggage; the other road is "narrow" and restricting, because it is the way of
persecution and opposition--a major theme in Matthew (see comment on 5:10-12;
cf. Ac 14:22).

But the two roads are not ends in themselves. The narrow road leads to life,
i.e., to the consummated kingdom (cf. vv. 21-23); but the broad road leads to
eternal death (cf. 25:34, 46; Jn 17:12; Ro 9:22; et al.). Democratic decisions
do not determine truth and righteousness in the kingdom; the way that leads to
life is exclusively by revelation.

It seems best to regard the gate as something entered in this life as one begins
the path of discipleship. Entrance through the gate into the narrow way of
persecution begins now but issues in the consummated kingdom at the other end of
that way. In other words, even the beginning of this path to life is
restrictive.