(April 6, 2017 at 8:12 am)SteveII Wrote:(April 5, 2017 at 9:41 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: If the New Testament Christians are doing it correctly, we will be able to tell because:
15And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. 17And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. 19So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. 20And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
Maybe the government could set up testing centers ??
And guess what, the apostles (the people he was talking to) were able to do those things . Read Acts.
Yea yea yea, you love Superman got it, and others love Batman and others love Yoda.
Sorry buddy, but none of the NT was written during the alleged time the bible claims the Jesus character existed. Second hand hearsay written after the fact. If an underdog upstart had been really pissing off Jews and the Romans we would see evidence DURING that alleged time the bible claims outside the bible. The NT was written BACKWARDS in time to suit the agenda of the writers.
It is a common tactic in ALL religions who splinter from an old one to incorporate ideas and figures and people into the new movement after the fact do draw readers away from the old religions.
None of the NT proves in any scientific sense that a baby can be born without a second set of DNA who spends his life with magic super powers only to die having all the blood drained out of his body, to suffer complete organ and brain death, only to magically survive rigor mortis. Now do not try to claim that either the birth story or death story really happened because that is flat out bullshit.
Ideas of hero god/s who save the world were not invented by Christianity. Rising into heaven also was not invented by Christianity. The Ancient Egyptians also had their hero god Horus who was born to save the world, who also ascended into heaven to sit next to his dad Osiris under the head god Ra in judgment of humans.
I am sorry someone sold you that old book of myth, but that is all it is.
