"Thom Stewart" wrote

Well stated. Bible history and Biblical history should be a combined
study. Jesus was a wonderful teacher for that time of world development.

That's typical what your saying, Tom. People dismiss Jesus by calling him a wonderful
teacher. That's so soo soooo shallow of people to attempt to diminish him like that. You and
others say. "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a wonderful teacher but I'm not gonna accept his
claim that he's God." Duh!
That's the very thing you shouldn't say. Why? It's pretty obvious to me. Anybody who
was just plain human and said the things Jesus said wouldn't be a wonderful moral teacher.
Nope, he'd be a raving lunatic or he'd be the devil incarnate.
You've got to choose one thing or the other. Either Jesus was what he said he was - God -
or he was a wack job nut case man or even the devil himself. So stop with the patronizing crap
about Jesus being just a wonderful teacher. It's an insult. That's not the choice he gave us.
Either believe he's what he says he is or reject him outright as a fraud. That's the choice he
demands of us. Don't try to diminish him by insulting him.

Cheers,
Ellen