this is why the bible contains no mention of jesus driving a car or reciting the alphabet backwards

If his blood were wine it would have an abv of between 8-14 percent, although I believe wine was significantly diluted back then.

At that point id argue it is an ABC

wouldn't the BAC be around 15% though? 100% would be for distilled stuff, and while an appalachian jesus sounds rad, i don't think he ever did water into moonshine.

Can't do a blood test if there's no blood to begin with.

I think with a BAC of 100% I would also be seeing god...

If blood was wine, it would be about 13% on average

The real reason he was crucified. You need to go to the apocrypha of Thomas to find out about how many times he ran over Lazarus with that mule before he skipped town for three days.

You can try to say this in a crowd of the followers of the religion of peace about their prophet. Hope you can run fast and you have a place to hide.

I honestly don’t know what colour of skin people of the levant would have at that time.

A very mixed bag, given that it was a major crossroads of the ancient world.

Maybe we are due an updated parable: The Good Transwoman

And when I was pregnant, you aborted my fetus

And when I was undocumented, you paid me fairly for my labor and didn't try to gouge me on rent

And when I was addicted, you gave me methadone and a place to sober up.

i see you were paying attention at the church i play music at. we have (well, had. my contract just ended) a damn good pastor

I mean, the idea that a guy made a weird sect,

There is still no evidence of that. It's just moving the goal post, but in reality it doesn't make a difference.
There are also communications between Christian groups where the personification of Christ is debated, to make it easier for people to understand Christianity.

t’s far from being the most significant person or whatever,

Again you are completely missing the point, because according to Christianity Jesus is clearly the moist significant person to ever live, and if the bible was true, that would be a fact, as his existence is claimed to be the salvation of billions of people through 2 millennia.
So saying he is not, is actually the same as supporting my claim that he never existed.

Isn’t that him the romans were describing it, as a cult gathering people fast?

No, Christianity was insignificant until the Romans themselves adopted it for political reasons.

I don’t think there’s much merit to whether or not Jesus was a real person.

Nono that's not how it works, the burden of proof is on those that claim he existed. Without such proof, there is no reason to believe he did.

WTF are you quoting??? Quoting without a source is nonsensical.

Very few serious historians doubt the existence of Jesus the person.

Because over centuries of Christianity dominating western teaching, historians have been indoctrinated and even paid to accept or prove if they can that Jesus Christ as a historical person, exclusively based on the stories in the Bible, that are 2 generations after the fact, and by anonymous authors and based on hearsay at best, or rather they are simply made up. The bible is in no way a trustworthy historical document.

If you point to scholarly consensus, you also have to be able to point to evidence that scholarly consensus is based on, and the fact is you can't. This scholarly consensus is 100% based on a circle jerk, where scholars conclude according to their own beliefs in Christianity without evidence.

Clearly you can believe whatever you want to believe

My beliefs on the issue are based on the evidence, if you want to believe based on superstition and group pressure your beliefs are not equal to mine.
Beliefs without evidence are generally false as in near infinitely unlikely to be true, and false beliefs that are a central point of your world view are demonstrably harmful, exactly in the way Christian beliefs can be shown to be harmful.

Actually kinda?

Tho it's still WAY easier to comprehend translations instead of deciphering linguistics. Probably why in my elementary school they all had the versions with translation.

(Looked something like this, arabic in middle and translation on bottom. Tho no QR and ours had translation on side)

I think it's popular in religious circles to read quran commentaries too? I know at least journalists used to publish new interpretations on the newspaper, and I assume religious scholars were the ones reading those.

Sorry for my poor English, hope this helps!

While Jesus is an authority and primary source on a number of things, He is neither of those things for compassionate love. I think in this decontextualized instance, "thy neighour" actually has a specific meaning that is being stripped, possibly referring to the other tribes of Israel, such as in his parable about the good Samaritan that people commonly misunderstand. I wouldn't be willing to draw much from it without a much deeper reading.

I'm not making a dogmatic argument, I'm making a much more grounded claim about psychology and spirituality. Compassionate love is a real thing that we know stuff about.