Denial of self. The doctrine of altruism. The belief in the supernatural, his affection for facial hair. (kidding on the last)
His pluses - much of the Sermon on the Mount, his unrelenting love in his teachings, his openness to all (such as the Canaanite woman with the sick child), his humility, his grace, his style (despite the beard).
Denial of self. The doctrine of altruism. The belief in the supernatural...
His pluses - much of the Sermon on the Mount, his unrelenting love in his teachings...
How do you put together the incongruity of what must be to you, a terribly misguided nutcase who believed in the supernatural and who told other people that he came down from heaven, that he himself was Life and the only way to the Father, etc. with the sublime sanity and love in his teaching in the Sermon on the Mount? After all, a major aspect of his teaching was also his teaching about his own nature, was it not?
So what of the moral nature, not to mention the sanity, of a person telling other people that he would walk out from his grave, if he did not actually do so? How could such a person be considered godly, or even a good teacher, seeing as how he believed in the supernatural and all?
As Orthodox Presbyterian has pointed out,the atheist world view simply has no accounting for a central event in space/time history.
Cordially,