I have no problem with theists having faith (I've engaged in this arguments so many times I have both sides memorized), so long as they admit their beliefs are based in faith. Fair enough. But you must have a really funny idea of what qualifies as proof. I wish you could read your posts objectively, to see how utterly insane you actually sound.
The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ was foretold by the prophets. Jesus Christ stepped into history and fulfilled each one.
It is not a situation where you close your eyes and just hope.
If Jesus did not exist and do the above, Christianity is a lie. Christianity is true because God sent his son, just as he promised, to pay the price for our sins.
It is faith based on historical fact.
Kenny - tell me factually why you think Jesus was not the Messiah.
Isaiah 53 (Written 700+ years before Jesus Christ)
Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
4 Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But
he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and
by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and
the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8 By oppression[a] and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes[c] his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
11 After he has suffered,
he will see the light of life[d] and be satisfied[e];
by his knowledge[f] my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[g]
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,[h]
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
