[LetThereBe]

Quote by: SoccerfreakAB2 How can they believe otherwise if they also belief the Romans nailed him to a cross? The Romans did not agree with Jesus in that he should die for our sins. They just killed him, and now people want to believe he died for them, like any other cool martyr out there. Those disciple guys were prettty crazy IMO, and like any crazy cult out there, they proclaim their beliefs out loud despite its unorthodoxy. They thought, or wanted to think, Jesus was special. He was also their friend. Jesus promised eternal heaven and happiness, too. I mean, if in 1692 the Salem Witchhunt was going on and people actually believed that harmless little girls were witches, then hang 19 of them, I'm sure that 1500 years before that a dozen men would go crazy over one of their friends who claimed to be a prophet and claimed to perform miracles. Heaven was a huge bonus, that is the reason for the constant determination to spread Jesus' teachings. So eternal bliss could be his.

So you believe the disciples were willing to die and be tortured for a guy they liked, but still knew was a sham?