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heisenberg69:
I believe that the man Jesus Christ lived because I had spiritual experiences and received spiritual messages stating that he did live as the man the Bible speaks about.
One night I had what I refer to as my night in heaven experience. I've spoken of this before on this forum, I'll describe it in a different way. I'll limit the discussion to the part that related to Jesus.
"I'm in space, but not physical space. In a manner that is much clearer and certain than I usually understand, I know that the Bible's story of Jesus is true. I'm really surprised that this is so, because I'm an atheist (remember, this is past tense). I don't see Jesus and nobody tells me about him, the knowledge of his reality exists in a manner that is way beyond how I ordinarilly understand something. This knowledge doesn't feel repressive. In fact, it feels quite wonderful and is connected to an understanding that lets me know that not only does the afterlife exist, I completely understand how it is possible for the afterlife to exist without having to think about it. It is just that I forgot about the afterlife while living in this World. Life in this realm of spirit is what my existence is truly about. The problems of the World are gone. The happiness level in this realm is absolutely wonderful."
This experience didn't inform me on a verse by verse basis, which verses in the gospels are accurate. The feeling I had was that the overall story of Jesus is accurate.
When it comes to what different people have wrote about Jesus, I figure people could work an argument one way or the other. I believe I'll have to stick to what my experiences have told me. I'm not the only person to have a non-physical experience that involved the spirit of Jesus. Because of my experiences, I'm open to considering what they say, rather than concluding that they had some sort of interpretive error.
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