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Originally Posted by Russ B
I've heard that notion before and it's never struck me as anything other than absurd.
Christianity is based on faith. We are rewarded for having it. No amount of spin or 'mistranslation' can change that. I simply fail to see how anyone can be a Christian without faith. I haven't seen the programme but the bits I did catch would seem to back this up.
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Of course it would strike you as absurd, just like if I said the same thing to the people I was brought up with, as it seems you participate in a similar brand of Christianity as they do, where faith was said several times in the same sentance. To someone else it would make more sense though.
The programme was about the historical Jesus or whatever you want to call it and it was from a Jewish perspective. In that sense (much of but not all of) it was history rather theology or "in the ancient world citizen x might have thought y"). So it was history, not faith. A programme on faith could have been made and that would have been interesting.