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What convinced me was the New Testament - Basically, Jesus was a quite well recorded figure, and within a short period of time a narrative appeared about Him claiming to be God, doing miracles and then literally dying and physically rising from the dead. It rapidly started a movement of hundreds of people who were convinced that they saw Him alive, and many were willing to die for that fact if they didn’t actually die themselves. There is a lot of archaeological evidence for this early Church, and I have very good reasons to believe that the Gospels of Matthew and John were eyewitness accounts and the likes of Luke and Mark were compiled by eyewitness accounts from that time and location. Basically, the New Testament was written in the first century about a Guy Who’s existence and crucifixion is undeniable, written about His teachings, miracles and claims to be God, then His tomb was found empty and they claim they saw Him physically resurrected. It started a movement shortly after with the same narrative that hasn’t changed, unlike other legends.

Good videos on it that can explain it better than me:

youtu.be/vQKxoBpV2NE

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1mr9ZTZb3TUDsgjzdyFz8…

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1mr9ZTZb3TW70EEo4e2on…

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Indoril@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The naivety of it all is fascinating.

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- JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Nativity*
  
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MouldyCat@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Don’t you think the Jesus story would be a terrible way for an omnipotent being to send an important message that’s vital for everyone to hear? Just creating a normal human and plonking them in some desert backwater - who looks and sounds just like any other human. The only difference is he hears voices in his head, and can pull off some pretty mediocre magic tricks.

Seems way more likely that Jesus was just another mentally ill person and anyone who thought they saw him after he was dead was simply mistaken.

If all it takes is an appealing story to convince you that something with literally no evidence is true and you should devote your life to it, there are many other stories like that, check out the Baghavad Gita for instance. Some really wonderful characters and truly fantastic events - not to mention absolutely mind-blowing magic, all of it completely true (apparently).

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- Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  No, not really.
  
  Hindus see Jesus as another god, but Jesus claimed to be the only way to the Father, so Hinduism is pretty incompatible with the Jesus narrative
  
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  - MouldyCat@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Hinduism is pretty incompatible with the Jesus narrative
    
    Of course it is lol
    
    If there were a real god that cared about what rituals you perform in this life, then you would expect multiple religions to appear independently all over the world with the exact same rituals. But that has never happened once. Every single religion is totally different from all other religions that are properly independent of it.
    
    Never has divine inspiration revealed the same “truth” in different parts of the world independently. Almost as if it’s all just common or garden mental illness.
    
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    Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Christianity is the largest religion in the world and the vast majority of the world has heard about Jesus, so not necessarily
    
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SleafordMod@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Fair enough. I don’t think I’m convinced of God’s existence myself. But I think freedom of belief is important - we should be free to believe or not believe in God, because I don’t think anybody knows the answer for certain.

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