I don't know what's more frustrating: the ignorance of the original poster, or the ignorance of some of the people defending Christianity.
Dida said:
Jesus lived to his 30's, and yet four books about his life only recorded a handful of identical events? There is nothing else about the man's life that is worth recording?
Jesus didn't begin his ministry until he was 30. He was crucified at 33: this gives a 3 year window. The writers of the Bible assumed, correctly, that people didn't need to read about the day to day life of a Galilean carpenter.
Dida said:
- The Gospels gave 2 different family trees of Jesus. Mathew traced him back to Abraham, while Luke traced him back to Adams. The explanation is that Luke was targeted at general audience, and has to trace Jesus back to the ancestor of all man, to show his universal appeal. So they can just make up stuff to suit their propaganda needs?
It's the same family tree, Luke just goes back farther. Adam being the source of all people, including Abraham, I would think that this would be obvious enough.
Dida said:
- Countless other inconsistencies, such as giving 2 accounts of how Juda died, one said he hang himself, another, he fell on his belly and died.
All accounts say that he hung himself, or attempted to. Some relate that his body fell from the rope, leading to the whole disembowelment thing. The other accounts don't state whether he fell off the rope or not. No contradiction.
Dida said:
- Jesus claimed that he has been sent to die for the sin of others, and from the Gospels it appeared that he knew before hand about his inevitable death in Jerusalem. But he appeared to be really tense, he asked his pupils to buy knife; he prayed right before he got arrested, and was trembling and sweating. Well, that doesn't look very godly to me, and it doesn't look like a behavior of a man who knows and controls everything.
He knew that he was about to go through a horrible ordeal of torture, humiliation, and death. Would you be calm?
Dida said:
-About Jesus praying, who the hell does he pray to? I thought he is god. He is at least equal with his so call 'father'. It made no sense for him to pray.
You don't understand the concept of the Trinity. Jesus cannot be equal to his father because his father created him. God is three separate aspects of the supreme being. The son is separate from the father, who is the head of the trinity. Therefore, the son, who is said to sit at "the right hand of the Father" (obviously implying both separateness and the supremacy of the father) prays to the head, who is the father.
Dida said:
- Jesus gave strikingly different opinion in Mathews and Luke, such as in Methew, he told his pupils not to go into the town of Gentiles or Samaritans, but only to the house of Isareal. In Luke, he told his pupils specifically to go to everyone including Gentiles and Samaritans, Jesus even talked to a Samaritan woman and cured her himself. Clearly, Mathew was targeting Jewish audience, while Luke has a wider general audience. Meaning, the authors of the Gospels made up stuff to suit their own needs. Jesus could not possible hold two opposing views.
Actually, if you'll pay attention, he says the same thing in all places: Go first to the Jews, and if/when they reject you, take it out to the Gentiles. Take another look, it's all there.
Dida said:
- Jesus was not well-received in his hometown, even his family members, his mother, brothers didn't believe him and thinks he is crazy. Why? Because people who is closest to him knows him best, and they obviously observed nothing special about Jesus, and were wondering why everyone think he is so great.
It's stated quite clearly that he was not recieved well in his hometown (as no prophets ever were) because he lived a relatively normal life until age 30, when he began his ministry. His ministry was mostly conducted outside of his hometown, and so when he returned, the people of his town, who had yet to see any of his miracles, asked why he was so special. They had not seen his ministry. Jesus addresses this very fact with a clear explanation in more than one of the gospels.
Dida said:
- The bible suggested that the Roman governor didn't want to kill Jesus, it was the priests who forced it upon him. Well, back in the days of the Romans, I don't see how a group of priests can force a decision upon a governor. This was done, obviously, after christianity saw the need to convert the romans and started shifting blame to the Jews.
Pontius Pilate was in trouble politically, and Caesar had actually made it clear that if there were one more major uprising under his jurisdiction, he would lose his job and probably his head. Pilate's motivations were more political than anything else. If you'll pay attention, the Jewish priests implied (decietfully) that by claiming to be King of the Jews, Jesus was trying to subvert Roman authority. This opened up the possibility that, if Pilate spared Jesus, not only would the Jews revolt, but Pilate would be charged with failing to defend Caesar and his authority.
I could repudiate every single point you made if I wanted to sit down with a copy of the Bible and point out all of your mistakes. You can criticise things if you want, but first I'd recommend more than one thorough reading, as well as some outside scholarship. Otherwise, you risk looking like an ignoramus with a big mouth and an even bigger agenda, as you have here.
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