An agnostic's affirmation of belief:
Jesus Christ never existed; the disciples invented him.
If he did exist, he didn't claim to be God, or even the Son of God, he didn't perform miracles, and he didn't die on the cross; he faked his death.
If he did die on the cross, it wasn't to atone for our sins, but just bad luck or judgment on his part, and he certainly didn't rise physically from the dead; the disciples somehow sensed that he was with them after his death, and from this grew the resurrection legend.
If he did rise from the dead, then he didn't really mean all those bad things he said about sin, judgment, and hell; and heaven is, as affirmed by Hollywood, a place we all deserve and get to go to.
1 comment:
Your description of the agnostic looks just like the annual Easter attack on Christianity.
Stephen Greenhut has a good article.
Just in Time for Easter
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