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To: jongaltsr
Since I have a STRONG belief in God (mine is a cosmic God which even the bible references)

I am not sure what you mean by a "cosmic God". I, myself, believe that God is primarily way above and separate from His creation (the cosmos), but chose to interact with us, and even become one of us, because He loves us. His ways, though, are way beyond our understanding. It is enough that we know Jesus, and grow in understanding of Him, primarily through reading The Bible, prayer and by experiencing His loving interaction in our lives. We know that He is just and sin must be punished, but He made a way for us to be saved. We are saved by accepting His Son Jesus who died in our place on the cross, thereby paying the sin debt we owed. God is all about love, loving Him, and loving each other. Love and life are beautiful! Praise The LORD!!!

John 3:16 For God so loved the world (cosmos), that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

68 posted on 06/20/2012 12:44:35 AM PDT by Bellflower (The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
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To: Bellflower
I agree with the first past of what your said -

Since I have a STRONG belief in God (mine is a cosmic God which even the bible references)

I am not sure what you mean by a "cosmic God". I, myself, believe that God is primarily way above and separate from His creation (the cosmos), but chose to interact with us, and even become one of us, because He loves us. His ways, though, are way beyond our understanding.

The rest is conjecture and affords no absolute proof (But) it does provide people comfort and that is important to them.

To me, I accept that Jesus probably existed and that he was a good man (maybe even a GREAT man but there were also a number of others who competed for Messiah during that period.

If Jesus was such a great man he would have written down his doctrine and not relied on people who write 20 or more years AFTER THE FACT to get around to actually putting pen to paper.

I would love to go back in time to meet Jesus as well as the other contenders and make a decision as to their authenticity.

73 posted on 06/21/2012 3:11:05 AM PDT by jongaltsr
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