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The Resurrection
John 6IX Breezy Offline
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RE: The Resurrection
February 10, 2025 at 8:21 pm
(February 10, 2025 at 7:52 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Just saying that your man-god doesn't make sense to me.

So, an abstract concept like happiness and a concrete concept like male, stop making sense to you the moment a single entity possess both?
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RE: The Resurrection
February 10, 2025 at 8:25 pm
(February 10, 2025 at 8:21 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:
(February 10, 2025 at 7:52 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Just saying that your man-god doesn't make sense to me.

So, an abstract concept like happiness and a concrete concept like male, stop making sense to you the moment a single entity possess both?

I've long thought that gawd was just an emotion you christers feel. Thanks for confirming!
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RE: The Resurrection
February 10, 2025 at 8:30 pm (This post was last modified: February 10, 2025 at 8:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Your argument stops making sense to me the minute you start talking about individual members of larger categories. Should stop making sense to you too John, but it doesn't...and largely, i suspect, because you do not actually believe the underlying premises of your own argument for christ's resurrection and are theologically crippled by your contemporary materialistic indoctrination.
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RE: The Resurrection
February 10, 2025 at 9:05 pm
(February 10, 2025 at 8:25 pm)Ravenshire Wrote: I've long thought that gawd was just an emotion you christers feel. Thanks for confirming!

It's certainly true that many religious experiences, and religions, have an emotive origin. This, however, is what made the Abrahamic religions unique. They warn not to let your emotions, like awe, lead you into the worship of nature, but to look up to nature's God. And that has been a very profound, and very overlooked, shift in human history.

"Take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage." Deuteronomy 4:19.
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RE: The Resurrection
February 10, 2025 at 9:23 pm
(February 10, 2025 at 9:05 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:
(February 10, 2025 at 8:25 pm)Ravenshire Wrote: I've long thought that gawd was just an emotion you christers feel. Thanks for confirming!

It's certainly true that many religious experiences, and religions, have an emotive origin. This, however, is what made the Abrahamic religions unique. They warn not to let your emotions, like awe, lead you into the worship of nature, but to look up to nature's God. And that has been a very profound, and very overlooked, shift in human history.

"Take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage." Deuteronomy 4:19.



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RE: The Resurrection
February 10, 2025 at 9:31 pm
(February 10, 2025 at 8:21 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:
(February 10, 2025 at 7:52 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Just saying that your man-god doesn't make sense to me.

So, an abstract concept like happiness and a concrete concept like male, stop making sense to you the moment a single entity possess both?

No, but that's what you get for swapping verbs out. Your male has happiness. Your god is abstract. That which is abstract is not concrete. Not an atom of happiness to be found.
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RE: The Resurrection
February 10, 2025 at 9:32 pm
(February 10, 2025 at 9:05 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: It's certainly true that many religious experiences, and religions, have an emotive origin. This, however, is what made the Abrahamic religions unique. They warn not to let your emotions, like awe, lead you into the worship of nature, but to look up to nature's God. And that has been a very profound, and very overlooked, shift in human history.

You're hardly the first religion to evolve out of animism/shamanism.
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RE: The Resurrection
February 10, 2025 at 9:38 pm
(February 10, 2025 at 9:31 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: No, but that's what you get for swapping verbs out. Your male has happiness. Your god is abstract. That which is abstract is not concrete. Not an atom of happiness to be found.

The man is happy is a coherent English sentence.
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RE: The Resurrection
February 10, 2025 at 11:04 pm
(February 10, 2025 at 9:38 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:
(February 10, 2025 at 9:31 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: No, but that's what you get for swapping verbs out. Your male has happiness. Your god is abstract. That which is abstract is not concrete. Not an atom of happiness to be found.

The man is happy is a coherent English sentence.

And a lovely example of how English grammar shouldn't be relied upon for accurate description.

Try this instead. Name for me three things that are simultaneously abstract and concrete.
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RE: The Resurrection
February 11, 2025 at 12:08 am
(February 10, 2025 at 11:04 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Try this instead. Name for me three things that are simultaneously abstract and concrete.

House and home, dad and father, job and career
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