Could we agree that the more you walk alongside people, that old saying from the Scottish Reformers (Common Sense), has a wide swath of meaning.
What is common to one person may not be common to the next.


The Scots coined the term to label what a majority of people believed,
while common sense in the 21st century usually refers to what "that" person thinks.

Blessings,
Mark

I am thinking its the same old same old because the same questions and doubts appeared about 200 years after Jesus was executed. When the gospels were being “copied” into what is studied today. When Constantine started putting this religion under one doctrine in order to unite his empire, the folks he had doing it argued over whether or not to portray Jesus as divine. The resurrection story appeared a couple centuries after the execution. Constantine and the Popes who followed him suppressed a lot contradictory accounts. I believe that initially the Crusades were more about shoring up the Catholic version of events. Those pesky Muslims said Jesus was a prophet.

Danny, whether or not what you say about Constantine's guys is accurate or not is immaterial, the early church fathers (not to mention the apostles) had already established Christ's divinity two hundred years prior to any political motivation on Constantine's part. Let's strive for accuracy in our arguments.

I think when Jesus started telling people that the Jewish law was outdated, started saying no more animal sacrifice, No more eye for an eye, people should love each other, he got a lot of enemies. The more people began to listen to his message of forgiveness and passivity the more Jewish leaders were incensed. When he was executed with the blessing of Jewish clergy, his followers were heartbroken.

When christians were first executed in the arena about 30-40 years later it was for arson.

Couple hundred years later when the gospels were “copied” they began being executed for refusing to participate in sacrifices to Roman gods. Others were executed for the same thing including Jews.