From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad:tektronix!zehntel!sytek!menlo70!hao!seismo!rocheste!FtG
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: Jesus the non-divine teacher
Article-I.D.: rocheste.1053
Posted: Wed Mar 23 08:08:54 1983
Received: Tue Mar 29 02:35:56 1983

Larry Bickford has insulted at least one major world religion with hundreds
of millions of followers: the Moslems. Believe it or not Larry, these
people accept Jesus as a great teacher but not as being divine in any way.
The Moslems, along with many millions more, recognize that the Christian
texts were written by Christians to prove their own point and can not
be considered canonical. The Moslems have their own
separate set of teachings by Jesus (some of which do not appear in the
New Testament). In particular, it is a Moslem tradition that someone else
was mistaken for Jesus and was crucified (some say Judas). Hence the
Passion stories in the Gospels are inaccurate and the texts are not
to be trusted as a whole. (Jesus is not considered to be as good a prophet
as Mohammed, or even Moses, since he didn't establish his Kingship in his
lifetime.) Many, many more people throughout history have considered Jesus
to be a great teacher/rabbi/prophet without presuming any divinity. 
Even within the Gospels, the proper interpretation of "son of God" is
not the same for all people. (E.g., "I am A son of God." reads a whole
lot differently.)

In summary Larry, keep your own particular view of "There two sides to
every story- my way and the wrong way." to yourself. Let other people
believe what they want and leave the rest of us alone.
				FtG