RE: Atheists being asked about the existence of Jesus
January 6, 2019 at 10:15 am
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2019 at 10:23 am by Rahn127.)
(January 6, 2019 at 9:20 am)Der/die AtheistIn Wrote:(January 5, 2019 at 10:55 am)Rahn127 Wrote: A guy born of a virgin mother isn't possible, but a girl could be. It's called parthenogenesis.
There are no human cases of it that have been published, but one doctor I spoke to on the subject said that he had known of a few cases of it happening.
There is really no reason why it can't happen in humans, but like I said. "So far, no published cases of the event"
So Jesus was either a woman who pretended to be male or got mistaken for one, or a trans man. In that case the church should allow women and transgenders to be preists.
Or more than likely, it was popular to tell stories about a guy who born from a virgin. Lots of other mythical tales have the central character ALSO born through a virgin birth.
It creates something unique and special about the character.
It's something, that at the time, they didn't know about biologically. Something else they got wrong about life.
I don't blame them. They were simply telling a story.
It's the people who came after them and said "Hey this isn't just a story. This is the word of a god."
It's those people I blame. Because now they are saying that their god got all the details about life wrong.
(January 5, 2019 at 2:02 pm)Lek Wrote: If you rely solely on science for a determination of truth, then you have put your self in a box.
Yes you put yourself in a box of truth.
A box that you can safely stand in and observe the world around you.
That box is something old, something borrowed and something blue. (Dr. Who reference)
That box will allow you to observe everything in the universe, throughout time.
And it's bigger on the inside
Insanity - Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result