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Topic: I recognize him! He's Jesus!
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clockwork
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posted 17 August 2003 06:45 AM
I don't know about anyone else here, but the images of Jesus I have seen are remarkably consistent. The sixties hippy hair, the tanned complexion, etc… I can't think of a celeb that looks like him but I'm sure everyone here has seen the same Jesus image I have.So my question is:
Let's say there is a God. Let's even say he had a son that Christians generally accept as Jesus. My question is that if this image of Christ, which I've seen numerous times in independent situations, is wrong, would a believer get to heaven and refuse to accept that the little deformed gnome in front of him is really Jesus? Imagine it -
Believer: Who the hell are you?!
Jesus: I am you Saviour.
Believer: By the damned saint I used to worship, you gotta be pulling my leg. Stop pulling my leg and tell me where the real Jesus is!
Jesus: But I am Him.
Believer: Look you little shaved headed gobshite, stop fucking with me and show me to the Son of Christ! Does anyone think that a person that doesn't recognize Jesus in heaven would automatically go to hell? [edited to remove racial epithet.--rr] [ 17 August 2003: Message edited by: rasmus_raven ]
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nonsuch
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posted 17 August 2003 09:19 PM
Once you're actually at the Pearly Gates, introductions shouldn't be critical. For one thing, it would take a believer the first 100 years post-mortem, just to get over the shock of there really being an afterlife. They'd be ready to accept whatever they're told, by whomever they met there.
I doubt Jesus would be on greeter-duty, anyway: doesn't he have, like, 100,000,000 more planets to save? Right now, he's probably a three-headed scaly sea-serpent, somewhere in the Horsehead nebula, multiplying a basket of kelp to feed a multitude of skeptical sea-serpents.
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mighty brutus
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posted 28 August 2003 05:24 PM
quote:
Originally posted by nonesuch:
Once you're actually at the Pearly Gates, introductions shouldn't be critical. For one thing, it would take a believer the first 100 years post-mortem, just to get over the shock of there really being an afterlife. They'd be ready to accept whatever they're told, by whomever they met there.
I doubt Jesus would be on greeter-duty, anyway: doesn't he have, like, 100,000,000 more planets to save? Right now, he's probably a three-headed scaly sea-serpent, somewhere in the Horsehead nebula, multiplying a basket of kelp to feed a multitude of skeptical sea-serpents.
It's true, He is a very busy man/deity. But He does have time for a personal relationship with YOU. 
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batz
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posted 12 September 2003 02:20 PM
I can perform transubstantiation of wine into urine by the litre but they don't call that a frickin' miracle. On the whole recognizing Jesus thing, it is part of a larger problem that I've found in data mining that I brought up in a meeting at work the other day, to the utter stupefication of my colleagues. "So, how will you know when you have what you think you want?" It can be a toughie. The Catholic approach of "God is everywhere and in everything" took some of the onus off and allowed them to focus on more important things like ridding the world of birth control and torturing people.
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madman
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posted 12 September 2003 09:10 PM
Michelle;Do you do nothing but post on this site? Maybe if you had a real job you would appreciate
some of the things that a capitalist society provides if you work for a living
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