(January 9, 2019 at 10:12 am)Brian37 Wrote:(January 8, 2019 at 2:03 am)Godscreated Wrote: First off you did not answer my first question, this may not seem important to you but it holds truth in Christianity.
Secondly the Bible is strictly Christian because it shows how the OT and NT are intertwined, you can't separate them, each would lose much of it's value. The bible contains no adoption from any pagan religions, the reason some people see pagan things in the Bible is simple, they do not read the Bible with the intent to learn. faith has nothing to do with suspending reason and yes you can have both, I know this because I have both in my everyday Christian life.
GC
Um no, the bible is simply the result of new mythology spinning off of old mythology. The earliest Hebrews too, manufactured their religion from prior Canaanite mythology.
And what is to "learn" from that old book of mythology? Humans do not magically pop out of dirt. The planet and life on it was not made in 6 days. Babies are not born without a second set of DNA with super powers, humans also do not survive death as the bible would imply. And outside the fantastic claims, I do not find stories like killing off the Egyptian first born males moral for some beef God has with an adult. Nor do I find the mythology of genocide of the flood moral either.
You have faith yes, but do not tell me anything about an old book of mythology has anything to do with our modern understanding of life, our planet or the universe for that matter.
You have no proof of what you say. We see Canaanite religion mentioned in the Bible and it case of it is denounced by the words of the Bible. man was created from the dust of the earth other than that statement we have no idea how or what God did. You have no proof that there wasn't an actual 6 day creation, there is no proof of the big bang nor evolution. Since God created the universe I would suspect it would be no problem for Him to create that second set of DNA in Mary's womb. Only Jesus so far has survived death, there will be a day when all Christians will have new bodies and their same soul and mind. You pick out a few things you dislike about the OT and then say the whole of the Bible is bad, this only shows you have never studied the Bible and possibly never read it either or you would understand there are many morel attributes in the Bible that are in our own laws today. The Bible tells us about all those things you mentioned in your last sentence and fits perfectly well with them all, you just do not want to see this because you know then you would have to answer to God, by the way you will have to someday.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.