RE: Christianity and morals
June 4, 2013 at 2:18 pm
(This post was last modified: June 4, 2013 at 2:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 4, 2013 at 1:58 pm)Pandas United Wrote: You could say that about anything. I find the four gospels to be adequate.I could, yes, but I didn't. I said it about one very specific thing...and it's precisely -because- you find them to be adequate that they need clearing up. Those that disagree with you also, apparently, find them to be "adequate" - while reaching an entirely different conclusion. This is why I would call them "inadequate".
Quote:Fallen world.What sort of distance are we talking about, what sort of velocity, and when we reach the terminus of this fall what kind of impact are we looking at?
Quote:Another argument from silence. You are nitpicking. What about the vast amounts of facts already portrayed? Like: Mary's visitation to Elizabeth, date of Mary being found with child, birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, Circumcision of Jesus being 8 days after birth, their flight into Egypt, returning to Nazareth... etc.I'm not arguing anything amigo, I'm simply suggesting that the inclusion of facts would add credibility to the narrative.
Quote:"Image" was a symbolic tool. The image of God refers to the "soul" or "spirit" of man; the immaterial part of man.We'd have to have one of those for this particular translation to hold water. Now get to it.
Quote:Not as easy as you think. There's also a whole library full of historical references to Jesus in the Vatican. Gonna take a lot of explaining away.Detail your favorites, then we can handle them. I'm uncomfortable with this being left at a bare claim that claims about the existence of something exist. Understandable?
Quote:I'm not sure what you mean by this.. Are you referring to Calvinism?You'd have to take that up with him, and we have a rule about not calling people out - so I guess you'll just have to wait to see it with your own eyes. Until then, if you'd like to contest this, what would you say to someone who contends that is clearly obvious that god does not loves us all equally, and in fact does not love some of us -at all-...and that all of this is made very clear in the bible?
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