(May 22, 2017 at 7:12 pm)Succubus Wrote:No mention of the swine farmer being reimbursed for his loss?(May 22, 2017 at 4:39 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: That's just your personal impression...and not a particularly accurate or insightful one. The more I learn about Scripture the more deep and fascinating it becomes, in other words, the more I learn the more I realize how much more there is to know.
And this is the atheists dilemma, how to make scripture compatible with our knowledge of how the the universe works.
Evidently you are most familiar with scripture, so rationalize me this:
Mark 5.13:
Matthew 8.28
Luke 8.33
I am of course referring to the deranged pigs. Jesus came by a chained up loony in the midden area of a village, a Jewish village that owned a herd of two thousand pigs. Jews keeping pigs, say what? Anyway forget that for now, perhaps they were smuggling the porkies cross boarder to a more enlightened people who had a fancy for bacon.
Cut to the final seen, The loon begs Jebus to rid him of the demons and Jeebus obliges.
Quote:Mark 5
Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand and were choked in the sea.
To do this the man must manipulate energy in real time. What force does he use to do this?
Remember this is not a flashback acid trip from Revelation, this is documented in your synoptic gospels.
Please advise soonest.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!