RE: We can be certain of NO resurrection - A Response
October 1, 2015 at 8:07 am
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2015 at 8:11 am by TheRocketSurgeon.)
Edit to Add: I see Aractus did a good job of explaining why, even if we accept the earliest possible dates of the writings in question, they don't prove what you're claiming, Randy. Nice work, Aractus.
Second Editing: I see Randy still doesn't grasp that people writing "he is risen" doesn't mean that the stories told are eyewitness accounts that thereby imply the full "He was buried in the tomb of Joesph of Arimathea and when we came a few days later to look, he was no longer in the same tomb we saw him buried in and then he appeared and spoke to us and we watched him ascend into heaven, and none of this stuff I'm writing down 20+ years later is an embellishment from the retelling of the original basic version".
Second Editing: I see Randy still doesn't grasp that people writing "he is risen" doesn't mean that the stories told are eyewitness accounts that thereby imply the full "He was buried in the tomb of Joesph of Arimathea and when we came a few days later to look, he was no longer in the same tomb we saw him buried in and then he appeared and spoke to us and we watched him ascend into heaven, and none of this stuff I'm writing down 20+ years later is an embellishment from the retelling of the original basic version".
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
