if Jesus asked you to perform Oral Sex on him

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Thoughts can lead to a crime. So in order to help prevent crimes such as rape, it would be useful to kept our thoughts fixated on spiritual concerns and one of the concerns is focusing on God's character. When it says to not keep God's name in vain, God's name is another way of saying his character; don't allow God's character to vaporize away from ourselves.

 

I wouldn't go down on Jesus, he has Mary Magdalene for that.

 

It's not as useful as it would be to prohibit the action itself. You know, what actually hurts people. Over in another thread, I'm talking to OlderWaterBrother about free will and God's responsibility to protect those he loves, and you seem to be backing him up. But here you're defending the idea of thought crime (for an action that's not included as a crime). And if God can micromanage your thoughts, he sure can intervene to protect your life.

 

Your thoughts are for you the manage, not God.

You also seem to be forgetting that the "Ten Commandments" are just a small part of the greater Mosaic Law and they set the tone for the rest of that Law. You mentioned rape, in the Mosaic law the rapist was to be put to death.

Jesus when asked; “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” replied; “‘You must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. The second, like it, is this, ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments the whole Law hangs, and the Prophets.” (Matthew 22:36-40) If, like def zeppelin said, everyone obeyed these two commandments there would be no need for other laws or commandments.

 

People love to make fun of Jesus because they are miserable inside.

And I see a lot of miserable people in this thread.

So sad....for them.

Merry Christmas.

 

Why would you assume that people love to poke fun at Jesus because they're miserable? I like to make fun of Jesus, I also love to make fun of politicians and people who use too much gel. Not because I'm miserable but because I'm bored and it gives me a giggle.


Merry Christmas :xmastree:

 

I guess everyone wants to want sure gratification that the others in the midst of the World will change or make be changed and Me aware of the does and don'ts. At that there could be justice in the WOrld for a better life. At it there is only the figuring that It wasn't really me or anything to send a letter home to mother about.

 

You'd think. And yet, there are two commandments...

Well, considering so much of it is his followers' fault...

 

i would not suck on jesus, he tastes like jew.

 

Making fun of imaginary people makes me quite happy :coffee:

 

Yes, and yet they do not manage your thoughts for you, now do they? They might tell how you should manage your thoughts but still you are the one who decides whether you will or not, aren't you?

 

If you really thought Jesus was imaginary? - you wouldn't even waste your time.

You or anyone else in this thread, so don't take it personal.

Santa Clause is an imaginary person, but I don't see you or anyone wasting their time making fun of him.

Deep down inside you know Jesus is real - that's why you're making fun of him. It's pretty obvious.

 

what matters is there is no written record of jesus except for in the bible, the same book that tells stories of a talking snake and a virgin giving birth
riiiiiiiight

 

Instead of me trying to answer this, because I'm not going to turn this into a debate, maybe another thread, but I found this on the web, who can explain it faster and better than me....

Typically, when this question is asked, the person asking qualifies the question with “outside of the Bible.” We do not grant this idea that the Bible cannot be considered a source of evidence for the existence of Jesus. The New Testament contains hundreds of references to Jesus Christ. There are those who date the writing of the Gospels to the second century A.D., more than 100 years after Jesus' death.

In terms of ancient evidences, writings less than 200 years after events took place are considered very reliable evidences. Further, the vast majority of scholars (Christian and non-Christian) will grant that the Epistles of Paul (at least some of them) were in fact written by Paul in the middle of the first century A.D., less than 40 years after Jesus' death. In terms of ancient manuscript evidence, this is extraordinarily strong proof of the existence of a man named Jesus in Israel in the early first century A.D.

It is also important to recognize that in A.D. 70, the Romans invaded and destroyed Jerusalem and most of Israel, slaughtering its inhabitants. Entire cities were literally burned to the ground. We should not be surprised, then, if much evidence of Jesus' existence was destroyed. Many of the eyewitnesses of Jesus would have been killed. These facts likely limited the amount of surviving eyewitness testimony of Jesus.

You can find tons of stuff on Jesus if you know how to Google...here's some more...

Josephus, in the book Jewish Antiquities" wrote:

"At that time lived Jesus, a wise man, if he may be called a man; for he performed many wonderful works. He was a teacher of such men as received the truth with pleasure. . . .And when Pilate, at the instigation of the chief men among us, had condemned him to the cross, they who before had conceived an affection for him did not cease to adhere to him. For on the third day he appeared to them alive again, the divine prophets having foretold these and many other wonderful things concerning him. And the sect of the Christians, so called from him, subsists at this time" (Antiquities, Book 18, Chapter 3, Section 1).

Tacitus, in writing about accusations that Nero burned the city of Rome and blamed it on Christians, said the following:

". . .Nero procured others to be accused, and inflicted exquisite punishment upon those people, who were in abhorrence for their crimes, and were commonly known by the name of Christians. They had their denomination from Christus (Christ, dm.), who in the reign of Tibertius was put to death as a criminal by the procurator Pontius Pilate. . . .At first they were only apprehended who confessed themselves of that sect; afterwards a vast multitude discovered by them, all of which were condemned, not so much for the crime of burning the city, as for their enmity to mankind. . . ." (Tacitus, Annals, 15, 44).

Learn history...Do a google search, seek and ye shall find the truth.

 

i trust the history channel to do my searching for me

 

Jesus has the record of being regarded for a Recording activity of Tolerance of events for the archaeology. The record in the Bible is the unmitigatedly honest one to agree upon. There is talk of Jews being arrested in Judea and Sumaria (my own personal talk on the last one) at around the time of Calligula, and for that reason the need of some Christianity movement to transfer it's activity of conversion to the various areas of the Roman sphere of influence.

Last Jews were in Palestine at the reign of emperor Hadrin and shipped out to Constantinople and other areas. This is all sordid to showing How for no other reason but Christ's crusifixion that Jews were destined to suffer OR something like that.

But empirical history really is lousy into the dark ages.rettyplease:

 

So finally you admit that to fulfill the law is a cultivation of a state of mind.

 

No. Why would you think so?

 

You're the one who said we're making fun of Jesus. Skizm was being sarcastic about the allegation. We're making fun of you.

I suppose a manager doesn't actually manage the personell... They just make suggestions, and then you fire yourself.