Hello Doug, thanks for responding.

You said:

"I'm not surprised you didn't answer my question."

Then I apologize, my friend. I assumed you asked them rhetorically, as I haven't been shy about speaking out on them, here.

I will certainly answer them for you. You said:

"Did Jesus die for your sins? Is he dead or is he not dead? Did he just take the weekend off?"

Jesus indeed died for our sins. He said directly that He would. The Scriptures affirm constantly that Jesus is our sacrificial lamb, the One who chose to take our place to save us from the punishment we earned.

Jesus died, but is alive, now. Yet we need the correct understanding of "death."

Death doesn't mean Jesus ceased to exist. It only means His Spirit was no longer in His body. He promised the thief on the Cross that they would be in Paradise together that same day.

By Resurrecting, Jesus' Spirit returned to His body and revived it.

You said:

"Which "truth" - christian, hindu, muslim. Comparing math to fantasy/faith."

There's only truth. Belief systems either agree with it or disagree with it.

Faith systems don't have a different kind of truth than math. Claims are either true or false.

Of course, people believe many different things, most of which aren't true. Did you pay attention during covid? People believed wildly different things. The challenge was finding the truth in the midst of so many competing claims.

In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul states that if Jesus did not truly rise from death, then Christianity is worthless. If Jesus' Resurrection isn't real history, then Christianity is absolute bunk.

This is no pie-in-the-sky mysticism that doesn't care whether it's close to truth or not.