Nor did claiming to be the Messiah result in Jesus' death in the incident we are discussing, from John 10:32-33.
But that incident certainly does disprove your claim that Roman approval was necessary for Jewish authorities to stone blasphemers.
In that incident, Jesus only escaped death, literally because "he escaped their grasp".
Kevmo: "***Sure they are, and if you had read my article you would be aware of them. By stating such a thing it puts you into the rarified atmosphere of heretics. Read the article."
Sorry, FRiend, but I'm not going to debate your article.
It's all I can do to keep up with what you're posting here -- including all your Four-D's.
If you wish a response to some linked article, then I'd refer you to the Library of Congress where you can go to look up the answers... ;-)
Kevmo: "***Yes, the debate is between faithful christians and heretics who deny the deity of Christ, as the title of this thread suggests."
In fact, no Christian denies what the Bible actually says on this subject.
Many Christians assert far more than the Bible actually says, and historically those Christians have been eager to murder & burn anyone who disagreed.
Our Founding Fathers found those Christians to be repulsive & repugnant, and wrote their Constitution with the intention of defanging such monsters.
Kevmo: "*** You are right that it has been long debated, but the debate is between heretics and christians.
Heretics like you enjoy clothing themselves in scholarly accoutrements, but eventually the truth wins out and your spiritual & intellectual ugliness is exposed."
Exposed? Is that what you call it, "exposed"?
When "heretics" are burning at the stake, their flesh "exposed" & made "ugly" by the flames, you think that's a victory for Christ?
You wish to be Christ's judge here on earth, to decide who is "heretic" and who is not?
Who will be thus "exposed" and who will not?
Kevmo, are you really sure about this?
Sorry, FRiend, but I’m not going to debate your article.
***Because it shows you to be a freeping liar. And a troll, and, now, a confirmed heretic.
There’s no good reason for any freeper who celebrates the birth of Jesus as God incarnate to listen to your heresy.
In fact, no Christian denies what the Bible actually says on this subject.
***Then believe what the bible says, rather than push your heresy onto its backdrop.
Sorry, FRiend, but I’m not going to debate your article.
***Of course not, HEretic, because the article already proves the vast majority of what you’ve been saying is simple heresy.
It’s all I can do to keep up with what you’re posting here — including all your Four-D’s.
***The other article is on the religion forum, and the kind of posts you started out with would be wiped clean. We would have ended up discussing historicity, which is what I wanted to do. But you’re here to troll, push heresy, and disrupt & want nothing to do with an orderly exchange. Oh well, at least out here in the open forum I get to properly label you as a genuine heretic.