(December 21, 2017 at 1:08 pm)Drich Wrote:

(December 21, 2017 at 11:30 am)Jehanne Wrote: So, you're saying that Jesus was born in 6 CE?

come on...

Everyone knows that the priest who calculated the birth of Christ was a few years off. Not a bible thing, just an over zealous priest thing.

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Like I said in the beginning. The bible never claims to be inerrant, even so I never found a mistake. That said what the bible does say is that by these words are we held accountable. So no matter if the bible is in error or not it is to this standard we will be judged. if it is wy off. it is on god to either forgive or change it as he did with the dead sea scroll years back.

You can believe you want; the point of my OP is that Christian fundamentalism is in decline. You can say that Gallup does not know what they are doing, but the fact is that they have been polling long before either of us were born.

(December 21, 2017 at 11:30 am)Jehanne Wrote: So, you're saying that Jesus was born in 6 CE?

In non sequiturs this one speaks.

(December 21, 2017 at 2:05 pm)alpha male Wrote:

(December 21, 2017 at 11:30 am)Jehanne Wrote: So, you're saying that Jesus was born in 6 CE?

In non sequiturs this one speaks.

When was Jesus born? Why is that question so difficult?

(December 21, 2017 at 2:13 pm)Jehanne Wrote: When was Jesus born?  Why is that question so difficult?

Because the Bible doesn't give his birth date. It's not a knock on inerrancy to note what the Bible doesn't say.

Luke contradicts himself. Jesus could not have been born in 6 CE (the year that the census began) and yet also have been born 10 years earlier in 4 BCE, when Herod had died.

You can't have it both ways. Ergo, Biblical inerrancy has been falsified.

(December 21, 2017 at 2:52 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Luke contradicts himself.  Jesus could not have been born in 6 CE (the year that the census began) and yet also have been born 10 years earlier in 4 BCE, when Herod had died.

You can't have it both ways.  Ergo, Biblical inerrancy has been falsified.

I said I hold to Biblical inerrancy, not Jehanne or Josephus inerrancy.

Religious faith is a sickness, a mental illness. I sincerely hope that you recover someday; I did.

(December 18, 2017 at 4:00 pm)alpha male Wrote: Six is within the range of about eight.

Is that what you tell the ladies?!?

(December 21, 2017 at 3:13 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Religious faith is a sickness, a mental illness.  I sincerely hope that you recover someday; I did.

Yeah, because you seem really happy and well-adjusted... 

(December 21, 2017 at 3:13 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Religious faith is a sickness, a mental illness.  I sincerely hope that you recover someday; I did.

Religious faith can be healthy or unhealthy. Religion faith  isn't a mental illness. (However, mental illness, on occasion, manifests itself as religious faith.)

There is a difference between being mentally ill and being just plain wrong.