Come on Danny, why didn't you tell them that Jesus probably looked like a typical Judean Jewish man of his time ... perhaps because they would not identify themselves with your god and you'd loose new believers?
Jesus, if he existed, was most certainly brown. I'm pretty sure Dan "Not A Missionary" Everett knew that.
The biblical premise comes from Mark 16:15 15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
A genious of monotheism christianity is that if all people that are into God worship were to be converted into christianity of monotheism then it is easier to control the "God worshippers ". Then to defeat or prove one God thingie to not be worshipped would be easier that trying to go around battling each god thingie separately.
So it's kind of like, first the gods battle it out to be top single God, then its easier to do away or crucify one god that to crucify many different god thingies. That's just one view of the overview of god thingies thru out the ages.
A failure in that aspect come with the division of catholic church into denominations.
However, understanding the instructions on how it works show that the next beast forces people to worship the first beast.
Beast metaphor for laws of government.
It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. Rev. 13:12
Masonic lodge secret religion racist devil worship secret religion A.K.A. "beast" # 2 requiring people to worship first beast, christianity "in god we trust" god bless America... submit to Authority-666 pay taxes n ok justice for the innocent my teacher made me touch her p.p. rape the original indigenous inhabitants of their land calling them such as but not limited to Mexican, indian, and native American.
Actually he was a linguist interested in the Piraha because their language seemed unique (thats correct, unique)
Which led him to become an anthropologist
And live with them
Discover they had no religion
Lose his own religion
And become a member of their tribe
Never was a missionary
Read "Dont-Sleep-There-Are-Snakes", which is the traditional "good nite" of the tribe (Triple Canopy Humor)
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Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'
Annie Dillard
Before 1492!!!
The New world never heard of Jesus or holly ghost!
Difficult questions to give a truthful answer to.As far as I am aware no eyewitness of Jesus wrote anything about his appearnace or anything else about him.
the gospels came about 100 a.d. long after he was gone