Was Jesus Insane?

tommy_mylex

Originally posted by barney50 at 4-9-2006 06:10 PM
tommy my friend,

In your Quran Jesus was accepted by Mohammed as a messanger and now you say Jesus was insane. So, If Jesus was insane surely Mohammed too was insane to accept him as a messanger ...

Wrong again
Ask your Christian friend if their Jesus ( man made god )
and Muslim Jesus (pbuh) are the same person ?
Than come back again and we talk about it ok !

Jesus was also Nabi Isa right? Was Nabi Isa insane?
If Nabi Isa was insane, then Jesus was insane. If Nabi Isa was not insane, then Jesus was not insane. They are same person.

tommy_mylex

According to the author of the Gospel of Mark (Mark 3:19-21, 31), during the period when he was preaching, Jesus' relatives, his mother and his brothers, believed that he was mentally ill.

Just what if a dimly remembered historical figure went mad, said a lot of wild things, some good and some not, then after his death writers embellished his legend and part of the embellishment was cross-culturally borrowed mythos? Is that a possibility? You know, when I read parts of Jeremiah and Ezekiel one word comes to mind: schizophrenia. Could some or most of history's  have received visions through hallucinations?

tommy_mylex

Biblical contradictions exist in the text; if not, Christians would not have needed to write libraries trying to explain the gospels, which only amount to around 10% of the Bible. Imagine, there are less than a hundred pages dealing with Jesus directly, but millions of pages have been needed to try and explain what it all means; and each christian sect and subsect has come out with its own interpretation. The truth can stand by itself and doesn't need interpretations.

That alone is a sign that the bible is full of falsehoods, if the Bible had been aiming at Jesus of Nazareth, then why is there so little written about him! How is it this world shaker never drew the attention of his own contemporaries, who were many. How is it that people like Debmey, Einard, Truth8 and the rest  need to EXPLAIN what it all means; what's the matter, men inspired by an omniscient being could not write clearly? Even ardent Christians cannot agree among themselves about what means what -- pathetic. It sounds like Christians are speaking for a mentally unbalanced god; "they said this, but what they really means is ...."

hERICtic_algon

Originally posted by tommy_mylex at 5-9-2006 09:31 AM
Biblical contradictions exist in the text; if not, Christians would not have needed to write libraries trying to explain the gospels, which only amount to around 10% of the Bible. Imagine, there ar ...

You make a valid point in that Christians don't even understand their own religion. They all interpret the Bible to conform with their own preconceived ideas; in short, the Bible is adjusted to fit them personally. So if the Christians hates homosexuals, he will interpret the Bible in such a way to support it; if he hates homophobes, he can easily interpret the Bible to attack them. In short, the Bible is very flexible in this regard.

Talking about sanity, let us not forget the so-called apostle Paul. IMHO, he was a total loon. I used to work with the mentally disabled, and it was very common for their mental illness to come out in the way they spoke, or wrote. Consistency of ideas and the consistent train of thought can be seen as a sign of mental health, and its lack, a sign or mental illness or disability.