"Theist": is a Transitional Form In Human Cultural/Cognitive Evolution

Sorry Daley, you have drifted off Topic:It is about the cognitive and cultural evolution of humans into a more rational, intelligent world where theism (in general, not just Christianity) will either have to also become Rational (which it is impossible for any superstition to achieve). Evidence for this is in the changing of the world's cultural landscape, where religions are on average diminishing in numbers or are changing to keep their numbers. For your Biblical angle to work, you need verified, first party impartial (outside of the Bible) witnesses to the life of Jesus, of which there is absolutely none existing. Paul did not talk to Jesus, so all his books on what Jesus said, came from hearsay and were likely wrong.Here is a psychological look at the changing faces of Religion.http://www.psychologytoday.com...Regardless of whether you believe the Bible to be true, which is not supported by genuine tangible evidence, in spite of your claims. Writings within a book or set of scriptures in legal terms is called collectively conspired and corroborated evidence, which does not mean supportive evidence as it is highly probable that the writers conspired to produce false supportive evidence or that it is possible the scribes hired by Constantine, deliberately interpollated text and words to make the Bible more cohesive. Thus, if you take these considerations into any court of law, they cannot ever pass a judgement of Truth in the Bible. The truthfulness of the Bible is extremely dubious and where there is doubt, there cannot be evidence. It's to me, like trusting a car salesman that the car he was selling has only been driven by an old departed lady to church on Sundays and considering this as absolute Fact. Where is the evidence, oh, she has departed, maybe she wrote it in her diary, how far is it from her place to church, what is the odometer reading, how many Sundays did she have the car, likely to a mechanic, such use of a vehicle would damage the vehicle's engine beyond repair, due to build up of carbon and acids in the cylinder walls and on the piston rings.The issue is too complex, far beyond your comprehension,and many, many philosophers and historians completely disagree with you. An unresolvable contention, cannot be considered as evidence for your case.On the Changing Face of Religions:People are either changing religion or religions are forced to change hopefully to being less Irrational in order to survive.Christianity today is completely different to Christianity 100 years ago which is not even recognizable as the Christianity from when Constantine invented the Bible.Even the interpretations of all the scriptures has changed, many passages that were once considered as absolute fact, like the Garden Of Eden and the biologically impossible talking serpent, and even the Noachian Global Flood are now considered by modern Christians as merely Metaphorical. Many Christians today, or probably even most would have been excommunicated or executed for their beliefs today.Many Catholics and even some Protestant theologians and believers used to hang on every word of their great historical apologists, such as Thomas Aquinas, and considered them as extremely brilliant men. Yet, most critical thinking rational philosophers today, consider those Apologists as nothing but naive, babbling irrational idiots and liars.These changes of people leaving religions as they become more Rational and religions themselves becoming more Rational to follow culture are evident in all our statistics, where apart from the continual increase in atheism and agnosticism, there are also many moving away from traditional, stagnant and less rational (open) religions.This is all part of my Hypothesis, the cognitive move from the Irrational to Rational.Eventually religion will not be able to become fully Rational without abandoning the superstitious base of religion, in other words, it may have to get rid of God(s) to survive.For the USAhttp://www.independent.co.uk...http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...For Britainhttp://www.brin.ac.uk...A scientific view of the Evolution of Religion:http://scienceblogs.com...Here the author stated that Religions do not evolve improvements.In fact, if you follow my Hypothesis on the evolution of cognition, religions actually get worse as they change.Daley, If you went back to the 2nd Century CE and started preaching what you believe about Christianity and Jesus, you would likely be considered a heathen and executed. Because Christianity has changed greatly and the interpretations of everything has also changed accordingly. Christianity is nothing like those times.Though you could be lucky and they might not understand a word you say, because language has evolved an incredible amount in that time also and likely you would be locked away in a cell and considered insane.Language follows cultural changes and religion must as well in order to survive, and there is a point in the rationality scale as humans become more rational, that religion cannot follow.Because religion is essentially a superstition, and will be publicly regarded as such in a rational new age where Neuro-psychological knowledge (now a very new science) becomes common knowledge.Here is a reference to another debate on religions changing over time!http://debatingchristianity.com...A few more references to help your thinking and possibly give you some ideas for your reply:http://www.nytimes.com...http://www.religiondispatches.org...http://are.as.wvu.edu...http://answers.yahoo.com...http://www.pewforum.org...Remember, My Hypothesis is nowhere near perfect, nor bulletproof, no Hypothesis is.If it was considered factual with supporting verified evidence, then it would be a THEORY, not a Hypothesis.