So....by your explination Jesus was not really a god...He was just a person, there is no real proof that he did any miracles. People are telling these stories...and what these people say has everything to do with what everyone believes. He is who millions upon millions of people pray to and ask to guid thier lives. He has incredible power over people's lives. People have just as much power as gods...people are why gods have power in the first place. Without the belief, there isn't the god. The more people that believe, the more power the belief has. Imagine if Marxism reached the point of Christianity; he would then be a god. Who knows what people would be saying about him if his words had all that power? Gods are what people make them into. Buddha has millions of people who follow, pray and look up to him for advice, teachings or infuence. How can you really say that isn't equal to a god? How many people or beliefs have more influence?
yeah, yeah i know. i suppose my point is a little convoluted. but "god" doesn't really have anything to do with what i was trying to say about life after death....i was mearly pointing out that this god-type belief or being a member of an organized religion normally goes along with believing in life after death....but the statistics showed otherwise (at least on this board). also, in my opinion, gods and life after death and all this hope and belief was made up by people becuase they were afraid of what they did not know and did not understand. oh, and there are many many many many different beliefs behind Jesus. Some people believe that he was God in a physical form to really discover what life...real life, not being up in heaven, was like. There is some science behind things, but a lot, if not most, is a matter of opinion and what you've been taught to believe.