Asanb, the Bible gets its moral authority from the Catholic Church,

.... with God all things are possible and that is why all those stories are real. let me ask you this, who is going to get the last laugh? or the last cry? all the ones who did not believe.

just because Francis is not a very good pope

thanks and when you see Jesus coming again i hope you believe then

The whole idea of faith is that we believe, even though we have not seen.

Why do we believe? We believe because we recognize that Jesus taught the truth. Every sincere lover of truth will be drawn to Jesus.

I never saw George Washington, Julius Caesar, William the Conqueror, Cleopatra, or Tecumseh either, but I believe they lived and that historical reports about them are at least mostly true. So why is believing in Jesus Christ unreasonable?

George Washington

1st U.S. President

George Washington was the first President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Wikipedia

Born: February 22, 1732, Westmoreland County, Virginia, VA

Died: December 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, VA

Vice president: John Adams (1789–1797)

Spouse: Martha Washington (m. 1759–1799)

Quotes

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

I never saw George Washington, Julius Caesar, William the Conqueror, Cleopatra, or Tecumseh either, but I believe they lived and that historical reports about them are at least mostly true. So why is believing in Jesus Christ unreasonable?

How much did I give to the tester, Duchessa asks, referring to my IQ score. I gave three years of my life.

(It was the U.S. military that measured my IQ.)

How much did I give to the tester, Duchessa asks, referring to my IQ score. I gave three years of my life.

(It was the U.S. military that measured my IQ.)

Sorry, I don't know the date and time of Jesus' birth. And as far as I know, they did not have birth certificates in those days. As Will Rogers once said, "Who needs birth certificates? The very fact that the kids are here proves that they were born, right?"

I've read four biographies of Jesus.

The four gospels are indeed biographies, in the modern sense or any other sense.

Paula Fredriksen:

William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture, Boston University

"RELIGIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS"

The gospels are very peculiar types of literature. They're not biographies. I mean, there are all sorts of details about Jesus that they're simply not interested in giving us. They are a kind of religious advertisement. What they do is proclaim their individual author's interpretation of the Christian message through the device of using Jesus of Nazareth as a spokesperson for the evangelist's position. The evangelist is not an author of fiction. The evangelist has traditions that go back through the Greek to the spoken language of Jesus, which was probably Aramaic. In other words, I think there's some kind of continuity between what Jesus would have been saying to other Jews in 27 to 30 and what the Evangelists in Greek are saying to their own communities, that Jesus said. But, as historians, we have to sift, and go through and try to figure out what corresponds mostly to the period of the composition in Greek and what corresponds to the lifetime of the historical Jesus.