"The virgin birth, the miracles, and the
resurrection can be viewed in an entirely new light...
They never were literal events... nor were they myths,
traditional legends, as scholars have often held.
Something really did happen, and what happened opens
up a whole new understanding of historical Christianity."

From the Introduction to "Jesus The Man".

Foxy,

I would go one step further and suggest that Jesus and the early cult of Christianity has its roots in Greek myth and religion and that the early Christians of the Greek world posited Jesus in the context of pagan Greek religious thought identifying Jesus as a demigod in much the same way that Herackles was defined by their pagan forebears. Which I think would answer LOUDmouth's question.

Mr O,

From biblical times to the terror of the Soviet regime,
to the Nazi Holocaust to the present suffering in
northeast Nigeria, to our local emergency rooms, the
suffering of innocents has often prompted the same
questions - Where is God? Why does the good God allow it?

When it comes to covid-19, and for that matter other suffering,
no one can blame God. It's people who have gotten us
into these messes - and it's people - with God's help -
who can help heal
a world deathly ill. We don't need to look to the Heavens
to find the truth.

In the case of covid-19, the Chinese government identified
the virus as early as November and the major of Wuhan before
he was fired admitted in January that over 5 million people from
Wuhan were allowed to leave the city before travel restrictions
had been enacted.

The government then proceeded to weaponize medical supplies
by importing tens of millions of surgical masks and respirators -
a large portion of the world's supply.

These are the facts.

Great posts and much better understanding of ‘Jesus’ than the OzSpen mythology.

It’s interesting to note the US Defence Intelligence Agency reported to senior US political figures back in August 2019 there appeared to be a flu virus of significant threat of becoming a Pandemic, this information (obviously now being suppressed) was confirmed by Israel last month by one of their senior intelligence officials. Go figure.

Mans hand is everywhere re Covid19, no sign of any god if you ask me.

Foxy,

There is no God, particularly the one defined by Christianity as He who is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-caring.

There is Life in its trillions of different forms and the Wuhan bat soup virus that is attacking us is one particular life form that finds us humans to be a convenient host.

We definitely do have a war on our hands: Humans versus Viruses; one form of feeder fighting for survival against an attack by another form of feeder. I think we humans will win this war simply because we have something very special that the Wuhan bat soup virus does not have: Culture.

But let's not diverge. There is something before the Big Bang that science cannot identify but it definitely will not be God because whatever it is that created a universe of things that feed on other things just does not tick all the boxes that define God.

certainly 100% must be a devil when you listen to the atrocious irrational excuses denying our Creator.