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The prophecy about your birth, Isaiah 7 14:16 needs clarification. When the whole Chapter it read, it is quite clear, that it has nothing, but absolutely nothing to do with Your own coming in the far future.

When you were a baby did you know that you were God? How did you find out? Did your mother explain it to you? Did you know how to read and write immediately? Did you play with other children or were you mostly alone, isolated, thinking deep thoughts about the Universe, atoms, structure of molecules, about galaxies, and about your own impending sacrifice? You had to know. Did you not?

As the Bible says, you were born to take the sins of the world away. Therefore you had to sacrifice you own life for us, the sinners. Did you soothe and placate your Father? However, if you were Three in One, did you pacify the all Three of you?

If you were God, you planned all ahead of time. Please enlighten me why the All knowing, the All in All, the Creative Intelligence, the Mastermind of the Universe, would have a son born of a virgin. And after this miraculous event to have the Son put to death by his own design to appease Himself. I do not know how to address you. Jesus, God. Holy Trinity, Rabbi, etc.

I am aware of the written words about God loving the world so much, that He gave his Son as a sacrifice for our sins. So, if you died for our sins, does it mean that someone can commit a crime, but, because you took sins of the world away, the killer is forgiven? That does need an explanation. You do not mention anything about the victim.

When you were a child did you know that one third of you was on earth and two thirds in heaven? Who told you that, if it were so? Your mother?

The star of Bethlehem is another puzzle. Where did it come from and where did go after shining above the inn? How large was it? Larger than the moon? Would it not have caused tremendous upheavals in the solar system? Would there have not been flooding, earth tremors, seismic disturbances and earth quakes? I recall at school we were taught that stars are suns, in that case would it not have caused burning heat and a change of weather pattern?

So many questions, but where are the answers? Are we supposed to take all this on faith?

You taught that we should love our enemies. Yet you yourself called the Pharisees that they are hypocrites, generation of vipers, and white sepulchers. Also, did you not scourge them with a whip to get them our of the Temple? Another question which surely needs clarifying.

You said:" Take no thought for your life what you shall eat, what you shall drink etc" It is so well known, that it does not merit to be written all out. However, please tell me, explain, how is this supposed to be done? If we did not work, plan for our future and future of our children, if we did not earn our daily bread, what would happen? It seems to me that we would become loafers, idlers, drifters and just plain bums, depending on handouts, alms and dole of those, who work for a living and do not listen to such strange idea as you taught. Am I correct?

Tell me Jesus, if we, the working class people are not supposed to plan for the future, how come that Churches amassed billions and billions of dollars during the span of years of your teachings They surely themselves do not follow your rule. Do they? How is that possible? Pope Leo X, your representative on earth himself said: "Quantas divitias nobis deded haiku de Christ, fabula" which in English means "What a lot of wealth this fable of Christ has brought us." This all is documented, you surely know that.

Did not priests take a vow of poverty? Please explain………

And how about being smitten on one cheek, and then turn the other also. How does that idea works? Would any clergyman of your Church allow himself to be slapped? I doubt it, they would call the Police, would they not?

Years ago Churches prohibited insurance. They told their parishioners that God is the only insurance they need. However now Churches themselves own Banks and Insurance companies as well. Did God, i.e. Yourself, did you come down from heaven and give them permission to expand their business enterprises? If so why? What made you to change your mind?

Also, would you please explain the "deaf and dumb spirit"? According to the Epistle of Mark, you said: " I charge thee to come out of him. " So the deaf spirit which never heard a sound and could not know the meaning of the command immediately obeyed you, and cried out. How could a spirit incapable of speech cry out?

If you could feed thousands of people with five loaves and two fishes, why did you cursed the fig tree? If the fig tree did not bear any fruit as it was not the season for them to grow, why did you not just make them miraculously appear?

Jesus, I have a great respect and regard for you. You were a great healer and humanitarian. I do believe that you were one of the Greatest Men that ever lived. However, there are many people as myself, the Infidels, as we are called, who would like have our reasoning and doubts answered.

Some of the stories about you, and they must be just stories, are hardly believable. I thank you for your answers.

Respectfully,

75 year old TRUTH SEEKER.

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