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human
No disrespect man, but it sounds like a cope.
gpt
What part of it my good friend?
human
Well, the opposite of sour grapes. Being happy with a crappy religion. Worship an even more neurotic version of the Jewish god, but then convince yourselves that the Jews who invented him are replaced and you're his special ones now. Christianity just seems to be a bunch of metaphors and Plato's unprovable ideas, while the Jews stuck to a religion based in the real world.
gpt
Yes, Plato has a lot to do with the merging of the Hellenized world and Jewish theology at that time and yes they are answers to each others questions. I argue that the Greeks were discovering very important metaphysics at that time and still to this day while the elect few were given a relationship with the unmoved mover lets say. You say invention, I say realization. Whether that was over the course of many years or sudden as described in scripture. So to say its merely a crappy religion is not an insult to me or my faith that this is the Truth its just a poor effort on your part in being honest with yourself.
Im assuming you've read the NT? Could you help me by pointing to these metaphors that are problematic and not 'based in the real world' whatever that means.
human
Sure, I appreciate your response, and because we can't prove it either way, I suppose just have to disagree about Plato. But as to what I think are just metaphors and why I think it's all a bit pointless:
>Jesus' crucifixion/the atonement
This absolutely is the Jewish/semitic scapegoat ritual. It had no basis beyond superstition. Believing you can put your sins on the goat and send it out into the wilderness. All the attempts to make it seem deeper than that are the basis of Christianity. 
>the Garden of Eden/original sin/forbidden fruit
As I understand it, there's nothing really indicating that the fruit is anything more than a fruit, and the snake was any more than a snake. It was a creation myth no different from Odin making people out of trees or that ancient Greek couple throwing stones that turned into humans. Adam and Eve were made out of dirt in a nice garden, a naughty snake tricked them into eating from one tree they weren't supposed to, and that's why bad things happen. Christianity tries to make more out of it than it actually is. A lot of Judaism too, sure but I'm not that familiar with it. And if there was no real apple, there was no real original sin, and then Jesus' scapegoat ritual was pointless. It has to either be literal, which is silly, or like I said, a bunch of pointless metaphors. I believe magick is real, and the Jews at least practice that. Even Jews who scrap the religious element of their religion still use the Egyptian/Babylonian/Greek etc. magick given them through the Kabbalah while Christianity demonizes those practices in favor of faith in, like I said, reading too much into primitive Jewish mythology.
gpt
Do you believe in such a thing as sin?