[Elsie]

It’s a collection of songs, speeches, lists, stories, legends, poems, and letters from a long-ago culture cobbled together by the Catholic church, edited and re-edited, which now exists as a relic that some people like to comb through looking for mystical signs to make their lives more interesting.

So why are YOU wasting your time with believers?

HAve you nothing better to do than to tell us we are all deluded?

What harm can it do?

If we're wrong; then we've wasted a few hours of our life.

If you, however, are wrong, you'll be wasting a LOT more than that.

[A_perfect_lady]

HAve you nothing better to do than to tell us we are all deluded?

I originally just came on here to see what it said about Bono. I always liked him. Then someone said that Christ was either the Son of God or crazy, and I thought, No, there's another explanation... then several of you came bouncing in to address me and I just got drawn into these conversations. But I have to admit, the more you guys talk, the more obvious the problems with it all are.

No one seems able to tell me exactly what the original prophecies about the Messiah were. And I mean stuff written before the New Testament. What exactly did the Jewish prophets say the Messiah would do?